Pyramids

Pharaoh is a title that was given to the Egyptian king, so there was more that one.

And yes some did have pyramids, some large but most where small and became buried and forgotten, Pharaohs move to more conventional methods of burying their dead bodys (like making large graves in the sides of cliffs).

Khufu the Great Pyramid the first and largest of the three at 480ft

Khafre the Second Pyramid at 471ft looks taller because it was built at a higher elevation.

Menkaure the smallest at 215ft

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Because the are strong big buildings that can last for a very long time.

The Great Sphinx is located in Giza, Egypt, land of the pyramids.

Most of the stone components were cut manually at local quarries, loaded on sledges and transported to the sites by gangs of naked slaves.

they had portcullis and dead ends

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.

So they could be worshipped forever

The ancient Egyptians strongly believe in an afterlife; much of their time on Earth was spent preparing it. They believed that what ever was placed in the tombs with them after they die would be with them in this other life. Gold, jewellery, food, games, tools/weapons, furniture and other miscellaneous items were believed to be essential in the afterlife.

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.

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

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The Pyramids of Giza, built around 2580–2560 BCE, were known to the ancient Egyptians and documented by historians like Herodotus in the 5th century BCE. However, they were rediscovered by European explorers in the 18th century, when interest in Egyptology began to grow. Notably, Napoleon Bonaparte's expedition to Egypt in 1798 sparked significant interest in the region, leading to more systematic studies and documentation of the pyramids. Today, they are recognized as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and a major archaeological site.

There are many many chambers in a pyramid... But i sadly cannot tell you how many chambers are in a pyramid. It is mostly because the size of pyramids vary. So overall between small and big pyramids there a usually nine chambers... Hope this helps you

It would be easy because we have more advanced things to build them.

the 4th dynasty pharaoh Khufu who reigned 2589-66BC. Not that he did the work himself he had thousands of slaves to do that.

Most modern sources estimate that there are 2.3 million blocks most of them limestone weighing on average 2.5 tons (2,545kg). The limestone blocks were cut from quarries located close to the pyramid site.

the great pyramids were used for the goods that king kufu has and to hold the kings and the queens chamber so nobody they know will take or steal the goods that kufu and his queen has in there chambers

The Louvre Pyramid is one of the largest and most important museums in the world. One of the most famous works of art is "The Mona Lisa"

It is difficult to give an exact answer because the edge of the pyramid is eroded.

The original size along the bottom was probably 356.2566 sacred cubits -- a cubit for each day in the year. A sacred cubit is 25.0265 modern inches. That comes to 9141 modern inches.

There is a further problem, namely the bottom edges of the pyramid are not precisely straight, but bowed slightly upward, so it matters whether you measure along the edge or "as the crow flies" from corner to corner. Some say that these lengths are in the same proportion as the tropical, siderial, and anomalistic year.

You see a lot of very precise numbers in this business, but I doubt that the dimensions are known to better than an inch. Despite the uncertainty, I am convinced that when they built the pyramid the ancients were bragging about their knowledge of astronomy.

make a square base, and 4 triangles of certain lengths so that all spaces are covered and also make sure that the triangles have the same angles in every corner.

Apart from being the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still existing, it is the biggest pyramid ever built.

pyramids got gold way back when ancient Egyptians thought people could rise to new life therefor they left treasures for their beloved dead and so the dead would have riches during new life.

I THINK

The great Egyptian Sphinx