They were built by the Pharaohs so that when they died they were placed in there. They also believd that having a pyramid made you immortal in the afterlife.
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The Great Pyramids, and other amazing structures make Egypt a special place.
The Great Pyramids, and other amazing structures make Egypt a special place.
The pyramids are 5,000 years old and were built in a time when man had few good tools and the blocks stone weight thousands of pounds . They are all hand made. The palaces we see today were built in the 1800's. Some date from the 1600's, but were added to and changed during the Elizabethan era. This makes the pyramids much more historical and important than a palace.
That question makes absolutely no sense at all. :/
While it would be really neat to see the Pyramids at Giza coated in shiny limestone once again, such a project would be really expensive. Some people believe that the damage done over time is part of what makes the Pyramids so historic. Whether or not you restore the Pyramids is up to you, although you'd have to ask Egypt if it would be OK before you started working.
The 'Ba' was everything that makes an individual unique, similar to the notion of 'personality'. (In this sense, inanimate objects could also have a 'Ba', a unique character, and indeed Old Kingdom pyramids often were called the 'Ba' of their owner).
The Rosetta stone helped to decode the hieroglyphic scripts of ancient Egypt. The stone was recovered in the excavations conducted by the French conquerors of Egypt in 1799.
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That makes no sense at all.
The importance of Ancient Rome was the first city-state.
The only one of those ancient sights that remains today is the Great Pyramid in Egypt.