Pyramids

Says the person who spelled write wrong. Giza is right.

The pyramids are in Egypt!

it is estimated to take 9-24 months with the technology and slaves that they had back then.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is estimated to have been built over a 20 year period.

Pharaohs

Tombs of early Egyptian kings were bench-shaped mounds called mastabas. Around 2780 B.C., King Djoser's architect, Imhotep, built the first pyramid by placing six mastabas, each smaller than the one beneath, in a stack to form a pyramid rising in steps. This Step Pyramid stands on the west bank of the Nile River at Sakkara near Memphis. Like later pyramids, it contains various rooms and passages, including the burial chamber of the king. The transition from the Step Pyramid to a true, smooth-sided pyramid took placed during the reign of King Snefru, founder of the Fourth Dynasty (2680-2560 B.C.). At Medum, a step pyramid was built, then filled in with stone, and covered with a limestone casing. Nearby at Bahshur, construction was begun on a pyramid apparently planned to have smooth sides. About halfway up, however, the angle of incline decreases from over 51 degrees to about 43 degrees, and the sides rise less steeply, causing it to be known as the Bent Pyramid. The change in angle was probably made during construction to give the building more stability. Another great pyramid was built at Dahshur with its sides rising at an angle of somewhat over 43 degrees, resulting in a true, but squat looking pyramid. The largest and most famous of all the pyramids, the Great Pyramid at Giza, was built by Snefru's son, Khufu, known also as Cheops, the later Greek form of his name. The pyramid's base covered over 13 acres and its sides rose at an angle of 51 degrees 52 minutes and were over 755 feet long. It originally stood over 481 feet high; today it is 450 feet high. Scientists estimate that its stone blocks average over two tons apiece, with the largest weighing as much as fifteen tons each. Two other major pyramids were built at Giza, for Khufu's son, King Khafre (Chephren), and a successor of Khafre, Menkaure (Mycerinus). Also located at Giza is the famous Sphinx, a massive statue of a lion with a human head, carved during the time of Khafre. Pyramids did not stand alone but were part of a group of buildings which included temples, chapels, other tombs, and massive walls. Remnants of funerary boats have also been excavated; the best preserved is at Giza. On the walls of Fifth and Sixth Dynasty pyramids are inscriptions known as the Pyramid Texts, an important source of information about Egyptian religion. The scarcity of ancient records, however, makes it difficult to be sure of the uses of all the buildings in the pyramid complex or the exact burial procedures. It is thought that the king's body was brought by boat up the Nile to the pyramid site and probably mummified in the Valley Temple before being placed in the pyramid for burial. There has been speculation about pyramid construction. Egyptians had copper tools such as chisels, drills, and saws that may have been used to cut the relatively soft stone. The hard granite, used for burial chamber walls and some of the exterior casing, would have posed a more difficult problem. Workmen may have used an abrasive powder, such as sand, with the drills and saws. Knowledge of astronomy was necessary to orient the pyramids to the cardinal points, and water-filled trenches probably were used to level the perimeter. A tomb painting of a colossal statue being moved shows how huge stone blocks were moved on sledges over ground first made slippery by liquid. The blocks were then brought up ramps to their positions in the pyramid. Finally, the outer layer of casing stones was finished from the top down and the ramps dismantled as the work was completed. Most of the stone for the Giza pyramids was quarried on the Giza plateau itself. Some of the limestone casing was brought from Tura, across the Nile, and a few of the rooms were cased with granite from Aswan. Marks of the quarry workers are found on several of the stone blocks giving names of the work gangs such as "craftman-gang". Part-time crews of laborers probably supplemented the year-round masons and other skilled workers. The Greek historian Heroditus reported in the fifth century B.C. that his Egyptian guides told him 100,000 men were employed for three months a year for twenty years to build the Great Pyramid; modern estimates of the number of laborers tend to be much smaller. Pyramid building was at its height from the Fourth through the Sixth Dynasties. Smaller pyramids continued to be built for more than one thousand years. Scores of them have been discovered, but the remains of others are probably still buried under the sand. As it became clear that the pyramids did not provide protection for the mummified bodies of the kings but were obvious targets for grave robbers, later kings were buried in hidden tombs cut into rock cliffs. Although the magnificent pyramids did not protect the bodies of the Egyptian kings who built them, the pyramids have served to keep the names and stories of those kings alive to this day.

Modern writers could learn much and the ancient peoples knew as much about our earth as we do.

Here is one fact~ The great pyramid was placed exactly six degrees above the Ecliptic equator meaning noon on the 21st June - summer solstice. To mean that the solstice sun would be overhead six degrees due south and the subliminal 'sun' would therefore pass through the great pyramid and hence (subliminally) through the centre of the King's Chamber.

It must be logic to assume that if the ancients knew the distance to the overhead sun and then multiply the distance times 60 they would know the circumference of the earth and then, subsequently, its width!

Humans for the most part, although supplies were occasionally delivered by other animals such as donkeys and oxen.

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

They used basalt in ancient Egypt to make walls for protection!

Frontline trenches were usually about seven feet deep and six feet wide. The front of the trench was known as the parapet. The top two or three feet of the parapet and the parados (the rear side of the trench) would consist of a thick line of sandbags to absorb any bullets or shell fragments.

In a trench of this depth it was impossible to see over the top, so a two or three-foot ledge known as a fire-step, was added. Trenches were not dug in straight lines. Otherwise, if the enemy had a successive offensive, and got into your trenches, they could shoot straight along the line. Each trench was dug with alternate fire-bays and traverses.

Duck-boards were also placed at the bottom of the trenches to protect soldiers from problems such as trench foot. Soldiers also made dugouts and funk holes in the side of the trenches to give them some protection from the weather and enemy fire.

The front-line trenches were also protected by barbed-wire entanglements and machine-gun posts. Short trenches called saps were dug from the front-trench into No-Man's Land. The sap-head, usually about 30 yards forward of the front-line, were then used as listening posts.

Behind the front-line trenches were support and reserve trenches. The three rows of trenches covered between 200 and 500 yards of ground. Communication trenches, were dug at an angle to the frontline trench and was used to transport men, equipment and food supplies.

Most were made out of Stone, though some were made out of mud bricks or mud bricks and stone.

yes, they are thousands of years old if you mean us us

but no if you are talking about the human race

All it takes to Build a pyramid is a little pixie dust and your imagination. with that, anything can come true! I'm KIDDING! it took thousands of slaves and many years to build the pyramids.

According to other resources, Thutmose I was the first pharaoh to have a tomb built in The Valley of The Kings. But, maybe or maybe not,king Amenhotep (the kind before Thutmose I) could've have a tomb built in The Valley OF The Kings first. But it's likely that Thutmose I was the 1st one.

Mortar. Although mortar that dries whilst packing around stonework will adhere the stones to form a structure.

you can see them all over the world but Egypt has the most famous pyramids of all

The biggest pyramid is the Great Pyramid of the 4th dynasty Pharaoh Khufu at Giza near modern Cairo. Built during his reign 2589-2566BC.

It is 480ft high and 750ft on each side of the base. It contain about 2.3 million limestone and granite blocks, a total weight of 6.4 million tons.

Yes, it is. The Great Sphinx in Giza, Egypt, is the oldest monumental structure known to man.

The Pyramid of the Sun is mainly made of rubble and brick and the surface of this pyramid was covered in volcanic stone.

The first pyramid in Egypt was the step pyramid of king Djoser, also known as Zoser.

It was a step pyramid, consisting of mastabas placed on top of each other, and designed by his architect Imhotep.

Unclear on exactly what you are asking here because I'm not sure if you didn't mean to ask "When" instead of what. Imhotep was the first builder of a pyramid for his Pharaoh Djoser/Zoser (spelling varies) ca 2630–2611 BCE. He began building what was to have been the largest mastaba, from the word meaning bench due to there long flat rectangular single story appearance with little to no exterior decoration, which had been the previous burial chambers of the earliest Pharaohs but he just kept adding smaller mastabas on top of the first creating what we know as the Step Pyramid and the first Pyramid.

the ancient egyptians built them to burry their kings in the early times. they stopped using them later on because they were being robbed. they then started using under ground tombs so it was harder to rob.

A large number of people perhaps 10,000 to 30,000 at any one time:

1. Skilled workers such as masons, carpenters, smiths (coppersmiths rather than blacksmiths), rope makers and surveyors.

2. the supervisors scribes, foremen in charge of the labour gangs

3. thousands of slaves who did all the heavy and often dangerous unskilled work.