Shortly after ascending the throne in 2589BC, Pharaoh Khufu commanded his overseer of works to prepare a burial place in keeping with his status as a god-king, a pyramid tomb far grander than anything that had been built before or since. A site was chosen on the Giza plateau west of the Nile across from his capital at Memphis. The site was surveyed and levelled to provide a foundation for Khufu's Great Pyramid.
As the slaves cut the first stones for the pyramid from nearby quarries, thousands more began building the causeway, erecting storehouses and digging a canal to link the foot of the plateau to the Nile. Meanwhile scribes, the Pharaoh's project managers, dispatched orders for more supplies.
A town was built for the crafts people where they were provided with houses, food, clothing and even medical care. Less comfortable accommodation in the form of barracks was provided for the slaves.
Through Khufu's reign, the construction site teemed with workers of all kinds hard pressed to complete the monument before the king's death. Khufu and his architects did not make it easy for them. The royal planners decided to enlarge the structure several times and relocate the burial chamber from beneath the structure to its inner reaches. Day after day, year after year, the quarries rang with the sound of hammer and chisel on stone. Through the dust the naked bodies of quarry slaves stand out dark against the yellow stone. After the stone blocks are hacked out of the quarry face they are lowered onto sledges. A note of each load is taken down by a scribe.
From dawn to dusk, naked slaves dragged sledges loaded with stones each weighing about 2.5 tons each to staging areas at the base of the pyramid. Here the skilled masons chiselled the blocks to prescribed dimensions, smoothed the sides and squared the corners. Slaves then reloaded the sledge and began hauling them slowly up the ramp that spiralled around the emerging structure. The noise here was one of chanting slaves and the rumble of heavy sledges. Water is poured under the blades of the sledges to ease their passage.
When the sledges reached the working level teams of slaves called setters shifted the blocks from the sledges into their designated positions. Toiling below were the tool makers, cooks, porters and guards under the watchful eyes of the scribes.
Other slaves were employed in maintaining and extending the ramps as the pyramid grew. Rows of slave labourers are seen breaking up waste material from the quarries, mixing them with the desert tafla clay and loading the finished mixture into baskets. Individual baskets are loaded onto the shoulders of slaves for delivery to the ramp builders on the pyramid.
Barges made from papyrus reeds deliver fine white limestone from Tura just across the river which will used to case the pyramid. Granite from Aswan over 400 miles upriver was used to build the internal galleries and chambers. Some of the granite stones from Aswan weighed up to 70 tons. Copper chisels were using for quarrying limestone but harder stones such as granite required stronger materials. Balls of dolerite, a hard, black igneous rock, were used in the quarries of Aswan to extract hard granite.
These dolerite "pounders" were used to pulverize the stone around the edge of the granite block that needed to be extracted. Teams of 60 to 70 slaves would pound out the stone. At the bottom, they rammed wooden pegs into slots they had cut, and filled the slots with water. The pegs would expand, splitting the rock.
King Djoser was the one who built the pyramid
The second pyramid was The Pyramid of Khaefra. It was built for the Pharaoh Khaefra (also Chephren, Khephren)
The Pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid was Khufu.
The Louvre Pyramid was built in 1989 in Paris. The pyramid sits in the courtyard of the Louvre Palace and is made entirely out of glass.
In the Third Dynasty, King (Pharaoh) Djoser, built the first pyramid, the Step Pyramid at Saqqara.
It is called a pyramid
the great pyramid was built by king khufu. he used large stones. He used thousands of slaves to build it.
pyramid maybe?
The Red Pyramid was built at the Dahshur pyramid field.
The step pyramid was the first type of pyramid to be built.
The Pyramid of Giza was built by the Pharaoh Khufu during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt. It is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and is the largest of the three pyramids in Giza.
khafue the third built the pyramid of cestius.
King Djoser was the one who built the pyramid
the Great pyramid of Giza, a suburb of the modern city of Cairo, the biggest of the three large pyramids built there for the fourth dynasty Pharaoh Khufu (reigned 2589-66BC).
The first pyramid was the Step Pyramid at Saqqara, built for King Zoser in 2750 BC.
about 1570 BC was the last pyramid built.
Such pyramid is in Egypt, and was built on 2560 BC.