Pyramids

stone ax, knifes

Oh yes, they did.Their tombs are full of paintings.

1 cm =10mm(millimetres)

A happy pharaoh makes everyone happy.

Making Pharohs is the key. That is all I got.

These pyramids were generally built of earth and faced with stone; they are typically stepped pyramids and are topped by a platform or temple structure used for rituals. The Egyptian workers(artisans, craftsmen, etc) make the blocks for the outer pyramid (limestone) and the inner walls (granite).
Shortly after coming to the throne the Pharaoh would command his overseer of public works and architects to prepare a burial place in keeping with his status as a god-king, a launching pad to enable his soul to soar from the earth to join the gods and his ancestors in the heavens. The chosen site had to be on the west bank of the Nile where the sun set. The first stage was for the royal survey team to mark out the site. Great care was taken in orientating the site to the four points of the compass and in levelling the site to provide a foundation for the pyramid. When the slaves had cleared away the sand and rubble highly skilled masons were called in to level the foundations. This was done by cutting a grid of channels and filling them with water. The rock was then cut back to the water level to make it perfectly flat. Finally the water was drained away and the channels filled with rubble. At any one time as many as 20,000 workers may have been involved on this massive project. Some of them were free men doing particular tasks such as masons, tool makers, carpenters, scribes and overseers. Many of course were unskilled slave labourers. Most if not all of the slaves were naked. From the depression of the quarry come the clink-clink of copper chisels and the thump of rock hammers of the quarry slaves toiling under the hot sun. Their naked bodies are covered from head to foot with white dust giving them the appearance of ghosts. After the stone blocks are extracted from the quarry face they are lowered onto sledges and a mark is made on the stone by one of the scribes. This aided them to place the blocks in the pyramid just as they came out of the quarry ensuring a better fit than random blocks without further finishing. From dawn to dusk, gangs of slaves drag the sledges loaded with stones each weighing about two tons to staging areas at the base of the pyramid. Most of the stone blocks proceed up the ramp without future handling. Only a fraction of the stone blocks needed to be cut to precise dimensions by the masons. The slaves hauled the loaded sledges slowly up the clay and rubble ramp. Whether it was a single long or spiralling ramp depends on the size of pyramid. When the sledges reached the working level teams of slaves called setters shifted the blocks from the sledges into their designated positions. These naked men used only simple levers, brute force and experience gained from years of hard labour. Once the stones had been delivered the hauling gang would make their weary way down the ramp carrying their sledge, in order to make the same back breaking journey up as they would several times a day. Other slaves are employed in maintaining and extending the ramps as the pyramid grew. These ramps are made of rubble, bound together with desert tafla (a type of clay) and laid with planks to ease the passage of the sledges. Rows of slaves are seen breaking up waste material from the quarries, mixing them with the tafla and loading the finished mixture into baskets. Individual baskets are loaded onto the shoulders of slaves for delivery to the ramp builders on the pyramid. Granite came from Aswan located 400 miles to the south. Granite was used for the lining of the burial chamber and the internal passage leading to it or in some instances the lower courses of the pyramid. These blocks were the largest in size used on the structure, for example, some of the granite stones used on the Great Pyramid at Giza weighs up to 70 tons. Copper chisels used for quarrying limestone could not be used, a harder material was required. Balls of dolerite, a hard, black igneous rock, were used in the quarries of Aswan to extract the 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 slaves pound away for weeks in order to expose enough stone for the block to be extracted from the quarry. At the bottom, they ram wooden pegs into slots they have cut, and fill the slots with water. The pegs will expand and split the rock with a resounding crack much more impressive than anything heard with the softer limestone. With much cursing and sweat the slaves lower the great blocks onto sledges. As many as two hundred slaves, their naked bodies gleaming with sweat, drag the loaded sledges along a causeway to the river where they are loaded unto barges and floated downriver with the current to the pyramid site.

All the kings and queens and royal family members of Egypt were eligible to be mummified.

Melons were "discovered" on the third day when God said, "Let there be..." and mature vegetation appeared all over the earth.

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The earliest step pyramid of Djoser has stood since about 2900BC

Both the Great Sphinx and the Great Pyramids are located in the archaeological site of Giza Necropolis, 15 miles south of Cairo. There are three pyramids, the Sphinx, cemeteries, an industrial complex and workers villages at this archaological site.

The sphynx

And their extraordinary belief in afterlife!

The great pyramid of Giza was built for the pharaoh Khufu and he was buried in the "King's Chamber" after his death.

To be successful, there are many steps you may need to take. The most important steps are to persevere and be determined.

Most of them were Egyptian, but in later years they were Macedonian and Greek, thanks to Alexander the Great.

From top to bottom;

Pharaoh ,

Government officials ,

Soldiers ,

Scribes ,

Merchants ,

Artisans ,

Farmers ,

and the Slaves .

the pyramid of menkaura was built 2490BC and is 213feet high.

ring of the pharoah.

One perfect tool that was not invented during the making of pyramids was a drill,nails,and a hammer .

There are several pyramids in Egypt. Each has a different incline.

Seneferu's Pyramid (the Bent Pyramid) has an angle of 54º 31' 13'' that reduces to 43º 21'.

The Great Pyramid of Khufu rises at an angle of 51º 52'.

Khafre has an angle of 53° 10'.

The Pyramid of Menkaure has an incline of 51°20′25″.

Limestone blocks.

The Egyptians put pharaohs in pyramids to protect the pharaohs body. They believed that the body had to be preserved for the afterlife because they would be using it again.

They were built to show the symbol of what they did

Roman sculptures are sculptures which were made by Romans. The Romans were very fond of commissioning marble busts of themselves and their families. Emperors liked to depict themselves as some aspect of a deity.

the ancient egyptians used to mummify the pharoas when they died so they could make more room in the tomb.