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Where were the millions of limestone blocks for the three great pyramids quarried?
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The bulk of the limestone used to construct the three great pyramids at Giza was quarried on the Giza Plateau.
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Where were the millions of limestone blocks of the three great pyramids quarried?
where were the millions of limestone blocks for the three great pyramids quarried
What types of blocks were used for building the pyramids?
Most of them were made from limestone often quarried close to the building site to minimise transportation.
Why did the limestone come from the river valley where they built the Great Pyramid?
The limestone quarry where they mined the stone for the pyramids had to be relatively close to the pyramids (they could not move the blocks far), and the nearest good stone to be quarried was to be found between the pyramids and the Nile River.
The Alamo is built of gradd?
The Alamo was built with blocks of locally-quarried limestone.
What materials are used for the pyramids?
The pyramids where built of large blocks of limestone.
What were the materials used for making pyramids?
They used limestone blocks to build the pyramids
What did they use to make pyramids?
giant limestone blocks
How many bricks are in the pyramids of Giza?
There are no bricks in Khufu's pyramid but there are some 2.3 million blocks of stone. Most of these block are cut from limestone quarried locally with an average weight of 2.5 tons. There are some granite blocks some of which weigh up to 70 tons.
What materials were mainly used for constructing the pyramids?
The Egyptian pyramids are built of limestone blocks.
The blocks that were used to construct the pyramids were made of?
The blocks used to construct the pyramids were made of limestone and granite. These blocks were quarried and transported to the construction site where they were carefully stacked to form the pyramids.
What were the materials for the pyramid?
They used limestone blocks to build the pyramids
What was the pyramids built from?
Big blocks of stone that were hundreds of ton in weight each. Limestone blocks
