Pyramids

They weren't invented, but made over 5,000 years ago by the Egyptians.

yes,they did not like it at all,but they had to.

It all depends on the size of the structure and the materials used. A small mud brick pyramid from the middle kingdom could be thrown up in a year. The great stone pyramid of king Khufu on the other hand is said to have taken 20 years to build.

Besides the Egyptians, pyramids were built by the following ancient civilizations:

in actual Mexico:

Olmec > Great Pyramid of La Venta

Aztec/Toltec (their separation is contested) > site of Tula

Maya > Chichen Itza

in actual Bolivia, Peru and Chile:

Inca > Machu Picchu

and you may add the Ziggurats of the Mesopotamian civilizations (Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian) like in Ur (Iraq) or Chogha Zanbil )Southern Iran)

Moreover it seems that some similar constructions are being discovered right now in China and Eastern Europe, but could not yet been related to any particular civilization.

About 4.5 thousand years old.

The stepstone pyramid at Saqqara, erected by pharaoh Djoser, is important because being constructed in the 24th century B.C. it was the first building known to be made completely out of stone.

Advances in the technology used to build the step pyramid would lead to the creation of the Great Pyramids at Gizeh.

tell us then how many pyramids did he build or was it just one or a tomb?answer this for me please!

Funny, you have the exact same question I have for my ancient Egypt quiz!! 6th grade.... sorry getting off topic {LOL} Okay, so I'm pretty sure this is the answer: First, there were mastabas, but then pyramids came because one of the pharaohs wanted something more than a mastaba, and then robbers robbed the riches from the pyramids, and they took a long time to build, so they decided just to bury them under the hills of the desert... and that's all I got :)

Hope this is okay

Haha, this is the exact question for mine : Write a paragraph describing how the tombs of the pharaohs gradually changed during the history of ancient Egypt.

so, summary : 1-mastabas, 2-pyramids 3-under the desert

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the first pharaoh; Menes became a pharaoh by going to lower egypt killing them in war, marring the princecs of lower egypt, combining the crowns of upper+ lower egypt and then took the title as "Pharaoh" wich means, most important person in egypt.

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Kukulkan is one of the gods of the Mayan mythology. It is also known as the Feathered Serpent

Go to china and check it out

First the site was surveyed and levelled to provide a foundation for the 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 and labour both skilled and unskilled.

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. A town was built for the free workers 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 the Pharaoh'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. The quarries are places of great activity creating clouds of dust. Through this dust the naked bodies of quarry slaves stand out dark against the yellow stone. Slaves are boring 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 pour water into the holes. The wood expands so fast that the block splits out with a bang (or at least a crack). After the stone blocks are extracted from the quarry face they are lowered 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 of naked slaves drag the sledges loaded with stones each weighing about 2.5 tons to a staging area 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 was one of chanting slaves, the rumble of heavy sledges and the swish of the overseer's lash.

Boats made from reeds deliver brilliant white limestone from Tura just across the river. 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 barges brought granite from Aswan over 400 miles upriver. Some of the granite stones from Aswan weigh to 70 tons.

At the working level teams of slaves called setters shifted the blocks from the sledges into their designated positions. Once the stones had been 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. Their only substantial respite from this round of toil in the hot sun was when they stopped for a meal of bread and onions.

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.

Pyramids were build so big because each Pharaoh wanted to show they were the best. In ancient Egypt the bigger the pyramid the wealthier you were, and each Pharaoh wanted to be bigger and better than the one before him.

they were also built so big to hold the wife too

Pyramids were built with the primary function of being a tomb.

The Pharaoh would have ordered his overseer of works to draw up plans, organise the workforce and materials. The work force was made up of artisans, workmen, and craftsmen. It is estimated that 20,000 to 30,000 workers would have been needed for the task.

They built it to bury or rather mummify a very important person the Pharaoh Khufu.

It is suggested that thousands of slaves were forced under daily hard labour to work until the task was completed. It was considered that only by the unpaid labour provided by these slaves was it possible to build this great monolith.

In a Ancient Egyptian tomb there are about 6 rooms. The annexe chamber (storage space) the antechamber (full of things he might need in life) the treasure room , the burial chamber , the corridor and the enterance (you know what they are).

By Beth Alice Leese

i think they did that to show you that they are strong like body of an lion and to show you that there country are strong i think so?

Today, there millions of Maya living in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Many of them still speak a modern-day version of the Mayan language and even more of them still practice the Mayan religion (See Popol Vuh for the text of their "bible"). They are more than just the indigenous peoples of Mexico but, the Federal government there does not treat them well, in my opinion. Their heritage should allow them to be treated as more than the way they're treated as second class citizens. Of course, there were a lot more Maya when they ruled the area; the society as a whole is thought to have diminished when the food supply dwindled and the majority left the major population centers.

One theory says they were slaves, another claims they were peasant farmers recruited during the annual flooding of the Nile when no farm work was possible. There was also a permanent staff of skilled workers and scribes who stayed on site all year round.

King Djoser built the Step Pyramid at Saqquara because tradition said he must work on his tomb till death. So he added consecutivley smaller mastabas on top of his first one ( and each other) and the resulting shape was a pyramid. This tomb sparked the epic age of pyramid building.

Ramses II (or Ramesses II) was the third Egyptian pharaoh (ruler or king) of the Nineteenth dynasty. He died about 1213 BC. His name in Greek was Ozymandias, and he is also known as Ramses the Great. His reign included several wars, as well as extensive building of temples and monuments.

The Great Pyramid has 2,300,000 limestone blocks each one weighing about 2.5 long tons, 2.8 short tons or 2545 kilograms.

The total weight of limestone in the Great Pyramid alone is estimated at 5.5 million tons (5 million tonnes). The other pyramids are smaller, containing from a tenth to a half as much stone. The pyramids have been stripped of their outer casing stones, which originally formed a smooth surface on the entire exterior.