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they had portcullis and dead ends

different language,different culture,different people

use the sattelite on google maps

Thieves broke into pyramids to steal anything of value. The builders of Cairo took away the beautiful outer casings of stone, in order to build a beautiful city. Now the pyramid inner stones left exposed are deteriorating rapidly over time.

Of course Egypt has zipcodes. You can get any city zipcode from The link in the related links section

I think there's a mistake on the website because they but the phone numbers instead of the zipcodes but you can call you area office and ask them about your zipcode

So they could be worshipped forever

The 138 pyramids in Egypt don't exactly have names. They were intended to be the tombs of the kings who build them. However in popular culture they are often named after the kings who built them. Some are also 'named' because of their unique characteristics. Examples are The Step Pyramid, The Bent Pyramid and The Red Pyramid. The pyramids at Giza are probably the best known in the world, and they are the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure. Khufu's, The Great Pyramid, is the largest Egyptian pyramid. In this famous grouping Khafre's is next in size followed by Menkaure's. Khafre was the son of Khufu, and Menkaure was the son of Menkaure. The Red Pyramid of Shofru is believed to be the first successful smooth sided pyramid, and it also has most of its original smooth finishing stonework. Saying that it was the first successful smooth sided pyramid reflects the fact that it was designed and built to be smooth sided right from the beginning; it was not build like The Step Pyramid, layered mastabas, where the resulting steps were filled in afterwards.

Shortly after ascending the throne in 2589BC, Pharaoh Khufu commanded his overseer of works to prepare a burial place in keeping with his status as a god-king, a pyramid tomb far grander than anything that had been built before or since. A site was chosen on the Giza plateau west of the Nile across from his capital at Memphis. The site was surveyed and levelled to provide a foundation for Khufu's Great Pyramid.

As the slaves cut the first stones for the pyramid from nearby quarries, thousands more began building the causeway, erecting storehouses and digging a canal to link the foot of the plateau to the Nile. Meanwhile scribes, the Pharaoh's project managers, dispatched orders for more supplies.

A town was built for the crafts people where they were provided with houses, food, clothing and even medical care. Less comfortable accommodation in the form of barracks was provided for the slaves.

Through Khufu's reign, the construction site teemed with workers of all kinds hard pressed to complete the monument before the king's death. Khufu and his architects did not make it easy for them. The royal planners decided to enlarge the structure several times and relocate the burial chamber from beneath the structure to its inner reaches. Day after day, year after year, the quarries rang with the sound of hammer and chisel on stone. Through the dust the bodies of naked quarry slaves stand out dark against the yellow stone. After the stone blocks are hacked out of the quarry face they are lowered onto sledges. A note of each load is taken down by a scribe.

From dawn to dusk, naked slaves dragged sledges loaded with stones each weighing about 2.5 tons each to staging areas at the base of the pyramid. Here the skilled masons chiselled the blocks to prescribed dimensions, smoothed the sides and squared the corners. Slaves then reloaded the sledge and began hauling them slowly up the ramp that spiralled around the emerging structure. The noise here was one of chanting slaves, the rumble of heavy sledges.

When the sledges reached the working level teams of slaves called setters shifted the blocks from the sledges into their designated positions. Toiling below were the tool makers, cooks, porters and guards under the watchful eyes of the scribes.

Other slaves were employed in maintaining and extending the ramps as the pyramid grew. These ramps were made of rubble, bound together with tafla (a type of clay) and laid with planks to ease the passage of the ramps.

Barges made from papyrus reeds deliver fine limestone from Tura just across the river and granite from Aswan over 400 miles upriver. Some of the granite stones from Aswan weighed up to 70 tons. Copper chisels were using for quarrying limestone but harder stones such as granite required stronger materials. Balls of dolerite, a hard, black igneous rock, were used in the quarries of Aswan to extract hard granite.

These dolerite "pounders" were used to pulverize the stone around the edge of the granite block that needed to be extracted. Teams of 60 to 70 slaves would pound out the stone. At the bottom, they rammed wooden pegs into slots they had cut, and filled the slots with water. The pegs would expand, splitting the rock. Slaves would then slide the blocks onto the barges.

The Pyramid of Khufu also known as The Pyramid of Cheops [his Greek name] or The Great Pyramid of Giza was built by the fourth dynasty pharaoh Khufu over a period of about 20 years as his tomb around 2550 B.C. Hemiunu or Haman is believed to be the architect of the pyramid as archaeologists found mentions of Hemiunu with titles roughly translated as 'Master of Works' and 'Vizier' the highest official to serve the pharaoh Khufu. His mastaba [tomb] is close by.

early dynastic Egypt the 4th dynasty to be precise which lasted from from 2613 to 2498 BC

The postal code for El Haram, Giza, Egypt is the same as the postal code for the whole Mohandeseen area. This postal code is 12411.

The fine grained white limestone surface sparkled in the sunlight from a great distance, adding to the beauty of the pyramids. I think all fo the limestone was stolen long ago by invading armies, though.

Scribes, masons, quarrymen, carpenters, blacksmiths, soldiers and thousands of slaves

They were built by the pharaohs as their tombs - The Pyramid of Khufu also known as The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Pyramid of Cheops [his Greek name] The Pyramid of Khafre.The Pyramid of Menkaure.

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Some, very few because of their importance.

Yes. Most likely. Absolutely. Obviously. Hope this helped. LOL! ♥

Answer

30 years

There is a mathematical problem with the above 30 year answer. If you do the math there are 10,950 days in 30 years. If there are 2,300,000 blocks in the largest pyramid, that would be putting in 210 2 1/2 ton blocks a day! I don't think that rate is possible. That doesn't take into account the time to get the site ready and start up the construction. So, they it may have taken 30 years, but I don't think there can be that many blocks in the pyramid. I would guess the estimate of the number of blocks is too large. The internal structure must be different then is what is currently believed to be. If we find out the complete details of the internal structure, we might finally find out how they were built.

I think you are both wrong the answer is 24 years

Well i think sorry i know it took 50 years to build the great pyramid of Giza because they used 2,000,000 milloin limestone blocks so th maximum amount would be 20-50 years to build 1 pyramid.

The Pyramid of Khufu also known as The Great Pyramid of Giza is a tomb. Thus nobody seriously 'lived' in any of the pyramids.

To stop thieves from getting at the treasures buried with the pharaoh. The Egyptians believed that the pharaoes buried there would be able to access such materials possessions in the afterlife.

The Pyramids have very narrow little corridors and even the grand burial Chambers are tiny to our eyes.

The important chambers were filled with belongings and carvings on the walls but for the most part basic carved stone walls and corridors.