Facts about the red pyramid

Answer 1

It is the only remaining member of the Seven Wonders. The features are so large it can be seen from the moon. There is no hieroglyphics in the pyramid. The pyramid is also known as: Pyramid of Khufu and The pyramid of Cheops. It is the tallest man-made structure in the world for a period over 3800 years. There are 3 chambers inside; king, queen and an unfinished chamber. The Great pyramid is made of 2,300,000 limestone blocks.

Answer 2

Here are some random tidbits of information about ancient Egypt.

• New Year's Day was based off of the rising of Sopdet, or the star Sirius (NOT the sun).
• Horses weren't originally around in ancient Egypt. The Asiatics brought them.
• Hatchepsut was diabetic.
• There were believed to be about 5 parts of the soul: ren, ba, ka, sheut, and ib.
• Despite popular belief, the ancient Egyptians weren't big fans of slavery.
• The legendary Cleopatra might actually not have been that pretty, but she was very intelligent and cunning.

When a family cat died, the Egyptian family would shave of their eyebrows in mourning.
# The Nile was the source of transportation. # It can be split into the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms. # The Great Pyramids were built during the Old Kingdom. # Amon Ra is their sun God and one of their main ones. # Akhenaten tried to turn Egypt monotheistic.
1. men wore skirts.

2. men wore make-up.

3. Children wore no clothes until teen years
1. men wore skirts.

2. men wore make-up.

3. Children wore no clothes until teen years

Answer 3

The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the seven wonders of the world and is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids of Giza. There are three chambers within the pyramid. There is a lower chamber and two higher chambers. The Great Pyramid of Giza is also the only pyramid in Egypt that has both ascending and descending passage ways.

Answer 4

1) Built as a monument and massive tomb to the Egyptian ruler.2) Had several false corridors and false rooms to prevent raiding -- though most tomb raiders eventually just dug up from below.

3) Were originally thought to be gilded with gold on the top -- The Giza Pyramids.

4) Have outlasted most other cradle civilizations temples and ziggurats because they were made of quarried limestone, versus mud bricks, and represent the permanence you see throughout Egyptian art.

Answer 5

Like the Sumerians at the same time, the Egyptians around 3000-2500 BC devoted a lot of energy to building big buildings. The Pyramids are one of the most impressive monuments of the ancient world and can be still visited today.
The Pyramids were built as tombs for the Pharaohs, the rulers of Egypt. They were all built during the Old Kingdom, so that the greatest remains of Ancient Egypt are also some of the earliest to have been built!
The first Pharaohs built simpler tombs, called mastabas. These mastabas were square buildings with a room inside for the coffin and the mummy and some things to take with you to the afterlife.

Then the Egyptian pharaohs began to build mounds of earth on top of their mastabas, to make them grander. Ordinary princes and other aristocrats went on being buried in mastabas. The Step Pyramid is one of the first of these new fancy tombs. It looked like a ziggurat.Soon the Egyptians decided to fill in the steps of the pyramid

The first really pointed pyramids were built at Giza. Khufu's Great Pyramid which was the tallest building on earth for almost five thousand years, until the Eiffel Tower was built in 1889.

People often wonder how the Egyptians could build such huge buildings so long ago. But really a pyramid is not hard to build, if you have plenty of cheap workers available. First they built a small mastaba-style tomb on the ground, in the ordinary way. Then one theory is that they heaped up tons and tons of dirt over the tomb, leaving a tunnel to the outside. Then they began placing huge stones all over the outside of the pyramid. To raise the stones to the top of the pyramid, they built long ramps of dirt and then rolled the stones up them. They kept making the ramps higher and longer. When it was done, they took the earth ramps away again.

Answer 6

At the top of the Temple is two shrines designated to the gods Huitzilopitchli (god of sun and war) and Tlaloc (god of rain and agriculture). These are for sacrificial and ceremonial sites. Its actually called the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan, not pyramid.

I really am not in the mood to get all in the sacrificial stuff, but you can look that up online. Hope this helped a little

Answer 7

size of the pyramid length is 173 meters east west. 107 meters north. it was built by the architect, Imhotep the first step pyramid belonged to pharaoh djoser

Answer 8

It is really BIG