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Pyramids
The pyramids were built thousands of years ago. They were built to honor their Pharaohs, Gods and Goddesses. These days, they are one of the greatest tourist attractions.
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they were built by hand. 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 was usually one on the edge of the cultivated land in an already established pyramid field. The royal survey team set to work marking 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. A town was built for the free workers where they were provided with houses, food, clothing and even medical care. The slaves receive food and shelter in the form of a barracks, far less comfortable than the houses of the skilled workforce. They are naked, too low in status to wear clothes.
From the yawning 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. 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 begin hauling 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 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.
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. This is a place of great heat, dust and noise a hellish place to be sent to work. 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 nude 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.
The word which means an ancient temple in the shape of a pyramid built in stepped levels was a?
Texra
What were the Egyptians burial practices?
The ancient Egyptians were really cool, they had an elaborate set of burial customs that they believed were necessary to ensure their immortality after death. These rituals included mummification, casting of magic spells, and burial with specific grave goods thought to be needed in the afterlife.
From the earliest periods of Egyptian history, all Egyptians were buried with at least some burial goods which they thought necessary after death. At a minimum, these usually consisted of everyday objects such as bowls, combs, and other trinkets, along with food. Wealthier Egyptians could afford to be buried with jewellery, furniture, and other valuables, which made them targets of tomb robbers.
is when you tie a pharoah in toilet paper and put him in a tumb with ruby's and poems also blessing's
Designer of the Stepped Pyramid at Saqara?
Djoser is the Pharoah for whom the Step Pyramid was built. It was designed by Imhotep, his royal archiatec.
11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes and 40 seconds: 11 days x 86400 seconds per day = 950 400s 13 hours x 3 600 second per hour = 46 800s 46 minutes x 60 seconds per minute = 2 760s and a rest of 40 seconds 950 400 + 46 800 + 2 760 + 40 = 1 000 000
Why does the pyramids have a qeens chamber?
Because Pharhoas wives were burried alive with them! The queen chamber was to give the still-living wife a bit of space without setting-off booby-traps.
How do you find lateral area of a pyramid?
If it is a regular pyramid you need to find out the base perimeter, multiply it by the height of the sides (when considered as triangles) and divide by two.
The height of the side can be found using Pythagoras's formula if you know the height of the pyramid and the length of a side. The side height of a pyramid is also known as the slanted height or L in a formula.
Formula:permiter of base x L(side height) ( P of B)(L)
p x L(slant)
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2 2
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To build a model pyramid, may I suggest that you visit the links attached. One requires plywood, another requires cardboard and hot glue, a third way is using a cubed box, another needs sugar cubes..eggs..sugar..and a pinch of cream of tarter, and another site using a lot of sugar cubes.
Do the Great Pyramids still hold bodies in them?
if people didn't find the bodies and study them already, then yes.
I've studied ancient Egypt for a fraction of my life, and have grown intrigued with the matter entirely. Wether the tomb of Osiris is real is debateable. You see, based on my knowledge, the tomb of Osiris is supposedly located on Biga Island in southern Egypt, just south west of the temple of Isis. This is logical considering Isis and Osiris were spouses and had a son name of Horus. Unfortunately, the tale of the Tomb may be submerged underwater as a result of the construction of the Aswan Dam. This dam may have flooded most of the island. It is a mystery if the island, or better yet, the entire tomb is still there, perhaps even a fragment.
Also, some fascinating legend behind Osiris goes some what like this: Osiris was one of the great Pharaoh's of Egypt in history, of both upper and lower Egypt (he wore the crown with white and red, expressing the unitement of upper and lower Egypt). He ruled Egypt greatly with his wife Isis. Isis had long golden wings, and Osiris was of what looked to be just an ordinary Pharaoh. They had a son, name of Horus with the face of a Falcon. Finally after many years of ruling, Osiris's greedy brother, Seth, or better known as Set, not to be confused with Seti, grew eager to take control of Egypt. He then, with preceeding planning, assassinated his brother. Set chopped up the body into many pieces (some say 13, some say 26, it's debateable) and scattered the pieces among the vast deserts of Egypt. Isis mourned his death, and was enraged. To avenge his death, she gathered the pieces of the body. This took many years. In the mean time, the high priests found guilt in Seth's story, and Horus became the Pharoh of Egypt in his Father's place. After all the pieces were gathered, she wrapped them to form the first mummy of Egypt. She placed them in the, "Holy mound," commonly known as the small Biga Island. She formed the temple there. Horus lead the Empire strong, as eventually, Isis died, and requested a temple near the island, although the architects and builders were unsure why. Since then, Osiris was the great ruler of the living and dead, the God of the underworld known as Duat.
I hope this documentary supplied concise, logical and of course helpful information.
What is the definition of pyramid?
pyramid (pir' a mid) A massive structure built of stone,usually having a square base and four triangular sides that slope upward.
Are the Egyptian pyramids a rectangle pyramid?
Yes. They are rectangular pyramids.
They are square, but a square is a rectangle, by definition.
Is it illegal to work for free?
NO IT IS'NT YOU COULD WORK FOR FREE OR FOR MONEY AS LONG AS YOU ARE 14 AND OLDER TO GET A JOB!!!
