Pyramids

They used the sand from the desert instead of buying it. They molded the sand together to make the pyramids and temples.

The pyramids are Tombs, so basicly yes

All of Egypt's pyramids are sited on the west bank of the Nile and most are grouped together in a number of pyramid fields.

The German Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius (1810-84) produced the first modern list of pyramids in 1842. He identified 67. A great many more have since been discovered, in November 2008 118 pyramids had been identified. The location of Pyramid 29 for example, the so-called "Headless Pyramid", was lost for a second time when the structure was buried by desert sands subsequent to Lepsius' survey. It was only rediscovered again during an archaeological dig conducted in 2008.

Many pyramids are in a poor state of preservation or buried by desert sands. If visible at all they may appear as little more than mounds of rubble. As archaeological techniques improve Egyptologists are continuing to identify and study previously unknown pyramid structures.

The most recent pyramid to be discovered is that of Queen Sesheshet, mother of 6th Dynasty Pharaoh Teti, located at Saqqara. The discovery was announced by the Egyptian Council of Antiquities, on 11 November 2008.

it depends how warm or cold it was

The Egyptians used a ramp. It was either a single strait ramp or a spiralling ramp that wound around the pyramid. The stone was placed on a sledge and dragged up the ramp by a gang of slaves.

I believe that they were changed because of the pharoah's

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the Nile river.

well pyramids have chambers and most have Pharaohs

some people believe that pyramids were built as a burial site for Pharaohs and others believe differently

some of the passage ways are very narrow and you have to crawl to fit. the reason for this is that the ancient Egyptian were very short and thin people and obviously not very costaphbic.

they were placed on wooden sledges and dragged along plank roads by gangs of slaves using ropes made from papyrus. Water or oil was poured on the runners to overcome friction.

Although the common theory is to simply deduce that the use of man power was in fact how the stones, weighing to to 100 tons, were drug along the sandy terrain and placed in stacks up to the top of a pyramid; it's simply not plausible. There have been many recreation attempts by scientists and scholars alike, yet the most nearing success was a recreation where the largest block transported was a meager 2.5 tons. Imitation with materials that are even better show how implausible man power was. Rather, it is more ideal to take into account how the Earth interacts with magnetic polarity. Edward Leedskalnin was able to construct a giant structure by himself that was made up of 1,100 tons of coral, including blocks that were up to 30 tons. By utilizing the polarity of iron and the magnetic properties of the Earth, a strike could line up atoms and drastically reduce the weight of a 30 ton block to allow feasible transportation. No matter how many people are tying papyrus and no matter how many tons of oil was poured on runners, 100 ton blocks cannot be pulled to the pinnacle of a scaling pyramid. Nowadays construction workers of the most superior scale have trouble moving anything near 100 tons. Although Leedskalnin passed away without giving up his secret, he did leave clues that it was all about polarity. Including his experiment that levitated a grid of copper, with the advancement of simplistic technology and anti-gravity of ancient civilizations, this was about the only possible explanation.

He built no pyramids but he built temples, statues of himself and a massive rock tomb. His name Ramses II.

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Shortly after ascending the throne in 2589BC, Pharaoh Khufu commands his nephew Hemiunu the royal 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 not far from his capital at Memphis. 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 Khufu's Great Pyramid. When the slaves had cleared away the sand and cut the site roughly to shape 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 slave overseers. The remainder and by far the majority were slaves, naked slaves too low in status to wear clothes.

Through Khufu's reign, the construction site teemed with workers of all kinds hard pressed to complete the monument before the king's death. Day after day, year after year, the quarries buzzed with activity. Through the dust the sun baked bodies of the quarry slaves stand out dark against the yellow limestone. Gangs of slaves bore holes using primitive drill bits and sand which acted as an abrasive. After they had drilled cores deep enough to define a block on one side, they packed the holes with pieces of porous wood and then doused it with water. The wood expands so fast that the block splits out with a crack. After the stone blocks are extracted from the quarry face they are strapped onto sledges. A mark is made on the stone by a scribe. This aided them to place the blocks in the pyramid just as they came out of the quarry ensuring a good fit without further finishing.

From dawn to dusk, gangs drag the sledges loaded with stones each weighing about 2.5 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 begin hauling the loaded sledges slowly up the clay and rubble ramp that spiralled around the emerging structure. The noise here is one of chanting slaves and the rumble of heavy sledges. Naked under the burning sun and streaming with sweat, the slaves bend to their thankless task.

At the working level teams of slaves called setters, using nothing more than primitive levers, brute force and experience from hard labour, shift the blocks from the sledges into their designated positions. Once the stones are delivered the hauling gang would make their way down the ramp carrying their sledge, in order to make the same back breaking journey up as they would several times a day. Toiling below were the support workers and guards under the watchful eyes of the Pharaoh's project managers, the scribes.

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 ramps. Rows of slave labourers are seen breaking up waste material from the quarries, mixing them with the desert tafla clay 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.

Boats made from reeds deliver brilliant white limestone from Tura just across the river. Here the slaves, in light provided by primitive lamps, toil in manmade caves to obtain the best stone. This stone will be used for the outer case of the pyramid. Once put in place and polished the effect will be awe inspiring.

Giant reed barges brought granite from Aswan over 400 miles upriver. Some of the granite stones from Aswan weigh 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, are 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. To achieve this, a team of naked slaves would pound out the stone over a period of several days. 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. Then with hundreds of slaves hauling on ropes the great blocks are lowered onto long sledges. Long lines slaves, their bodies gleaming with sweat; drag the blocks to the river where they are loaded onto the barges.

You need hundreds (possibly millions) of limestone blocks and about 30,000 slaves.

To be used by the pharaoh in the afterlife.

I would definitely think so. No light could go through all the twists and turns of the maze-like inside.

Mesopotamians built ziggurats which were structures that resembled step pyramids. These step pyramids could have up to seven levels or steps and had rectangular bases. The ziggurat was a temple used to honor their gods.

He ruled from about 2603 to 2599 B.C.

He was also known as Khubu or Khuba.

The Great Pyramid of Giza was built between 2560-2540 BC.

Most of the bocks for the Giza group of pyramids were quarried locally which saved an awful lot of labour. Granite was also used this had to be brought 430 miles down river from quarries located at Aswan. The white stone used to case the pyramids was quarried at a place called Tura just across the river from Giza.

The most accepted theory as how the Egyptians built the Pyramids is that they cut big limestone blocks with copper chisels and saws. Many men dragged them to the pyramid site and pushed the first layer of stones into place. Next, they built long ramps of earth and brick to drag up the next layer of stones. They continued this process until they made it to the top, finishing off the Pyramid.

Yes, the pyramids of Giza are in the Sahara desert.

You spell it like this : sarcophagus so you spelt it right

The Egyptians built they pyramids in different sizes because the wanted to have a little variety. It'd be boring to see the same pyramid in three different places.