Much of the stone was cut from a plateau near the pyramid site. Some harder and smoother stone came from quarries just across the Nile. Stone could also be - and was - brought from quarries all along the Nile for a distance up to 100 miles upstream. The ease of transport by water made this a simpler proposition than getting stone from closer by, but overland. After all, a couple of camels can haul a barge, whereas a single stone block might need 200 men to drag it across the desert sand.
Ancient Egyptians used: Rope and sand for cutting blocks.And hard stone chisels and hammers for shaping the statues (later in the bronze age they used bronze tools)Then softer stones to polish the statues.
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the egyptians used stone instead of wood maybe because they had no wood supply in the middle of egypt and stone was stronger and sturdier. if the egyptians were attacked or the tombs robbed the limestone would provide better protection. they used limestone because it kept cooler in the scorching heat and was easy to sculpt and break, however it was very heavy for the egyptian slaves to carry for miles and miles to the sites of the tombs.
The two predominant building materials used in ancient Egypt were sun-baked mud brick and stone, mainly limestone, but also sandstone and granite in considerable quantities.
the Egyptians began to use heiroglyphs because they needed a way to keep track of the kingdoms growing wealth.
The three mineral recources are limestone, sandstone, and granite. This came to be a huge advantage to the ancient Egyptians to build structures, and is still an advantage to Egyptians nowadays.
It is made up of limestone not sandstone
limestone and sandstone are found under ground and oil is there to
Sandstone is not an organic sedimentary rock, but limestone is.
No. Limestone turns into marble, not sandstone.
limestone or sandstone
Limestone is porous and can absorb water, while sandstone is also porous but less absorbent than limestone. Granite is a denser and less porous rock, so it does not absorb water as readily as limestone or sandstone.
They used basalt in ancient Egypt to make walls for protection!
Sandstone is compressed sand grains, and limestone is the compressed minute skeletal remains of ancient sea creatures.
yes
Limestone, Sandstone, Shale
No. Sandstone is mostly made of silica whereas limestone is made from calcium carbonate (which may contain some magnesium and other carbonates.