under ground chambers
under ground chambers
Egyptian pharaohs were buried in underground tombs, or later, in brick mastabas, and later still, in pyramids.
They pyramids were made to house the bodies of the pharaohs with all the things they needed in the afterlife. Later, tombs were created in the Valley of the Kings for the pharaohs and this was where Tut was found.
pyramids, or in later years the valley of the kings.
The earlier pyramids were built from stone usually limestone and granite. Later pyramids were built from mud bricks cased in polished limestone.
limestone and granite were the main materials used to build pyramids. Some of the later pyramids were made from mud brick with a casing of limestone.
They - nor the word that describes them - did not 'stand for' anything special at the time. They were just burial monuments of a limited number of pharaohs. The word 'pyramid' has much later, Greek roots. The Egyptian word for them according to many Egyptologist, just meant 'tomb'. Most pharaohs by the way did not get buried in pyramids. They were buried in the Valley of the Kings, in large tombs hacked out in the mountainside.
No the first pyramids were built from stone, it were the later pyramids that were made from mud bricks
yes the later pyramids were built with brick with a stone casing
1. Limestone, in the case of the Giza pyramids quarried locally 2. Later pyramid builders relied on mud bricks made from an almost inexhaustible supply of Nile mud. 3. Thousands of slaves
Valley of the Kings
The eariest pyramids were built of stone but in later years mud bricks cased in stone was used.