Pyramids

In social studies we learned all about the three major rooms in a pyramid. The first room is the gold room. It is filled with all gold objects the king owns. It is believed this will protect the king in the afterlife. The next room is the Furtic room. It contains frogs, beetles, ravens, and dogs for food in the afterlife. The final room is the sarcophagus room. It holds the Pharaoh surrounded by water to help him sale to the afterlife.

The Maya people inhabited Mexico and Northern Central America and were known for making ceremonial architecture. It is believed that they started to build pyramid like architecture almost 3000 years ago.

A stepped pyramid was built, then rough limestone facing stones were added, then the facing stones were carefully chiseled to form smooth faces.

You can easily make a pyramid out of a play dough. In order to do so, grab some amount of play dough, you can then make a triangle, then cut through the middle top toward on end on bottom and repeat the process from other side. You will need to do this for all three sides.

Beats me.So stop ask'n dork

the only way your gunna find this out is if you go on measure it yourself. Good luck :) x

He didn't. I assume you mean Ramses II? He built temples including the rock temple at Abu Simbal and hundreds of statues of himself. He had a big ego and why not? he was Pharaoh after all.
He was also known Ozymadias and subject of the poem by Shelley


I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".

Pyramids still do exist in Egypt, but as tourist attractions.

slaves made pyramids with their bare hands and with the muscle of their bare bodies

actually, slaves didnt build the pyramids at all. Paid labourers recruite from poor villages built the pyramids. these workers were fed well and had accesss to medical care. the myth about slaves building the pyramids came from an ancient Greek historian named Hero dotus.

not only were these workers well paid and fed, they were much respected for their work and were buried in a simple tomb right near the pyramids of their rulers. these tombs had jars that were once filled with bread and beer to supply workers for the afterlife.

no slave would have been given so many benefits and the honor to be bured next to the pyramids. the notion that hebrew slaves built the pyramids is a completely ridiculous myth.

They have not found Cleopatra's body. However the search for her tomb is being carried out at this time.

People in 17 hundreds would have discovered these things sailing around the world thinking this is exiting but now we don't even say woo hoo. People in Egypt would have known about the Egyptian pyramids all along; they are rather hard to miss. They weren't completely buried in desert sand. Some other pyramid-like structures in central America or Asia might have been more difficult to detect because of heavy forest cover or general erosion. Usually archeologists get around to exploring unusual hills and other formations to see what might be hiding there.

a dead pharoh
They were built for the Pharaohs as their tombs. They served as huge monuments and to prevent grave robbers from getting the mummies and the treasures that were buried with them.

An extremely long time. More than 50 million years from now, however, the Sahara Desert will receed, and the continental shift may destroy the pyramids. Visit while you can!

it is thought to be used as a Mayan calendar

clay mud that was set out in thhe sun dries then chisled to the right size

The largest pyramid in the world is in Puebla, Mexico. The Great Pyramid of Cholula is 4.45 million m³. it is actually in Giza from lizzie if you are single and are looking for a hot girl email lizzieand_bec@hotmail.com

here is a picture of the great pyramid of giza:

There were many civilizations who built pyramids in Mexico. Some of the most prominent were the Teotihuacan, Olmec, Aztec and Mayan civilizations.

He build a city called Memphis and in the Ancient Egypt it was the Capital.

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By Egypt people. By hard work and thousands of slaves

Every text ( and old Biblical epic movie) reports that the pyramids were made of limestone blocks positioned by thousands of slaves but Joseph Davidovits (a French Cemical Engineer) proposed, in the 1980's that at least some of these blocks were made of concrete. The lower tiers were done by the sweating slaves method, but the higher layers were made by workers carrying bags of wet cement to moulds.

MIT is actually reviewing this proposal by duplicating the theorozed Egyptian cement mixture.

The outer stone layer of the pyramid of Khufu was built with Tura stones. This is a l white limestone. Tura limestone is quite soft and can be worked easily but, after being exposed to air, it hardens.

Pyramids were used as tombs to bury the Pharaoh once he died.

djosers pyramid. He also built the bent pyramid

The oldest pyramid in the world is actually not even in Egypt, the home of pyramids. It is the Visocica Pyramid which is located in Bosnia and Herzigovinan town of Visoko. It is over 1500 years old! If you read articles that say that it is not true, don't belive it. The people that made that rumor is archeoligists from Eygpt. They are actually quite jealous that their title has been taken away from them. The locals thought that this was just a hill for over 500 years. But Semir Osmanagic was determined that it was much more. You can read more about this and see more photos at the link below.