A pyramid is a tomb, a temple is a temple.
The pyramid contains the treasures and body of the pharaoh. No one else is allowed in.
The temple is filled with priests and priestesses.
A pyramid is pyramid shaped, a tomb is not.
A sarcophagus is an ornate, decorative coffin that goes into a tomb. A tomb is where the coffin or sarcophagus is placed inside. King Tut is one of the best popularly known examples of burial in a sarcophagus, though these were used throughout ancient Middle East countries.
Today, the coffin-tomb example would any type coffin --from wood to steel placed in a mausoleums (above ground tomb, which looks like a small one-room "house" without windows that open; only decorative or stained glass windows). Mausoleums also have vents near the eaves.
Mastaba is a freestanding and rectangular tomb used by the ancient Egyptians while pyramid is a tomb for pharaohs which is triangular in shape.
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the difference is Egyptian put in box or something but Mexican pyramid put in water.
sphinx is a statue of a god or a ruler and a pyramid is what is built over a ruler's lifetime where he and his most prised pocessions are buried when he dies.
No
They were built as tombs.
Nobody lived in the Egyptian pyramids. They were tombs for the Egyptian dead.
Many paintings from Ancient Egypt have been found near the Valley of Kings in Luxor. However, many are also found in the tombs of the pharaohs.
Nope. They're VERY different. Egyptian pyramids were made as tombs for royalty, while Mayan pyramids were made as religious temples. The above answer does not relate to the question.
The pyramids were build as tombs. (Mountains are formed by nature, not built by men.)
They are pyramids.
Pyramids.
yes they did
The ancient tombs of Egyptian kings were pyramids. Egyptian pharaohs were first mummified, then put in a sarcophagus (a thing like a coffin) and then the more important pharaohs were buried in the center of the pyramids.
Pyramid, pyramids
They were built as tombs.
They built the pyramids because pharaohs believed they would rule their land after their death so they built themselves magnificent tombs . These tombs are the huge pyramids .
mummies were put in tombs and the tombs needed somewhere to go so the Egyptian people made pyramids..... Although I have no idea why they called it pyramids though.
Egyptian pharaohs needed tombs, so the Egyptians would make pyramids as the pharaoh's tomb.
The pyramids were not invented. The ancient Egyptian pyramids were built by Jews that were enslaved by Egyptians as gifts to the gods and as tombs for the dead Pharaohs to rest
Egyptian pyramids were basically large elaborate tombs/memorials. Pharaohs commissioned the pyramids to be built so they could be buried inside.
Nobody lived in the Egyptian pyramids. They were tombs for the Egyptian dead.