Some crazy people think anything. Landing pads for aliens?
Generally they are big stone tributes to dead Egyptian kings.
King zoser of the third dynasty thought of the pyramids!! :) ^ LIAR
Pyramids were used as tombs for the pharaohs and they were thought of as the gods' staircase to the heavens.
Pyramids were built for tombs because pharaohs thought it would bring closer to "The Afterlife"
historians thought that there were way too many pyramids to all be built by egyptians, so... they thought that the egyptians had help. and by help i mean aliens
Undoubtedly the Mayan Pyramids are much older than the Egyptian Pyramids regardless of what official thought is. The similarity in Tibetan, Mayan and Egyptian languages indicates a common root.
belongings thought to be of use in their afterlife
i thought that the shape of the Louvre art gallery was......
they thought it would bring the pharaoh up to heaven
The rays of The sun.
the eygptians builded pyramids because they thought that when people die they need to build pyramids so they can reach the sky and go to heavan. awnsered by tammy and nur grade 5.
Gthe pyramids were used as burial chambers, the shape is attributed to the fact the ancient egyptians thought it was in the shape of sun rays
Triangular pyramids are built that way because water was thought as acid to the mummified Pharaohs, so if it rained the pharaohs were safe.