Pyramids

egypt

Because Cheops had the biggest of the three pyramids , the great pyramid . The great pyramid was built over thousands of years ago. It was one of the largest handmade temples that was ever constructed. It took over 20 years to build the great pyramid. A while after Cheops died , intruders invaded the pyramid and stole the gold and the jewelry that was inside , along with the kings body! The great pyranid failed to keep the kings body safe. But it has kept his name alive over 4,500 years after his death.

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Four.. four were only visable.. One on the bottom so five in total..

over 9,000

most Egyptian scienctests believed that they only had gold tops to represent the different pyramids.

Actually, several ancient civilizations built pyramids, usually for religious purposes. The largest and best known were built by the Egyptians several thousand years ago, but there are pyramids in Mexico and Central America as well.

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 dusky bodies of naked quarry slaves stand out 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, 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.

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 stones.

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.

At any one time as many as 30,000 workers may have been involved on this massive project. Some of them were professional craftsmen most however were slaves.

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Giza...i think

Five: four sloping sides and a square base foundation

The pit is a chamber that has still underneath it a sealed off shaft that leads to a tomb chamber. When they place a mummy in the tomb chamber with his furniture, they seal the shaft entrance, leaving only a floor of the pit. You can see the design in the Mastabas. I am still not sure why they did not dig yet under the pit. Probably there is water and it can collapse the pyramid.

66m tall and 247 weight

The step pyramid was important because it was a place to hold dead bodies and to bury the pharaoh or leader.

The pyramid was built for King Khufu by a lot of people.

The Ancient Egyptians built pyramids for tombs for their pharaohs and their queens.

He did not design the first pyramid. Imhotep designed the first Step Pyramid.

Inside a pyramid are mummified remains, treasures for the afterlife, booby traps, book of the dead mummy's servants for the afterlife.

designing the step pyramid

In the Old kingdom Pharaohs had absolute power.In the Middle kingdom Pharaohs should be "good kings ".And in the New Kingdom Pharaohs should be all powerful.

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They start from the bottom now there here

well yes. Thousands of slaves toiled in the blazing Egyptian sun under the authority of hard whip wielding slave masters. The thong of the lash whistled through the air. Years of experience meant that an overseer rarely missed, it always found its target, as it coiled snake-like around the body of a naked slave. It left behind bruised, cruelly torn and often or not bleeding flesh.

The ancient Egyptians made the pyramids