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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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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. Toiling below were the support workers: tool makers, cooks, porters and guards under the watchful eyes of the scribes, the royal project managers.
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.
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How were the 2 tone blocks used to build the pyramids of ancient Egypt moved into place?
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. The number of hauliers depended on the size of stone to be moved. A two ton block, for example, required 20 slaves. To get the stone to the working level the most plausible solution is a ramp, whether it spiralled around the built portion of the pyramid or a single ramp from the ground upwards is still a matter of debate. One the stone reached the working level it was levered into position by further slaves using long wooden poles.
Unlike a tetrahedron (a four-faced shape with all triangular faces), a pyramid has a square (or rhomboid) base and triangular sides. Thus, a view from any side will yield a triangular appearance, while a view from below or above shows a square or rectangular shape.
How many people were buried in the Great Pyramid?
No mummy has ever been officially discovered in a Pyramid. There are separate buildings that house mummies and these are called mastabas. And the Pharaohs were buried mostly in special places like the valley of the kings which is in the Egyptian dessert. It is only a theory that the pyramids have anything to do with the afterlife or burial. We do not know what the Pyramids were built for.
Dependswhich pyramids you're on about. Did you know, there are more pyramids in Sudan than there are in Egypt?
Egyptian pyramids were used for the burial of deadPharaohs.The pyramids were used as monuments to the
Pharaoh'spower and divinity. The
Pharaoh'ssarcophagus was buried inside along with their riches and the people who served him in his life.
The Mayans are another great example of pyramid builders. Building a pyramid in the Mayan Empire was so much more difficult than building pyramids in Egypt, because the Mayans had to somehow travel with huge stones through deadly rainforests teeming with obstacles and predators. How they managed to do that is still a mystery to us.
The Mayan temples began to appear at the height of the Mayan Empire. The oldest Mayan pyramid according to archaeological carbon dating, dates back to around 3,000BC. Which is older than the Egyptian pyramids. They were used for worshipping the gods.
Aztec pyramids, also known as Mesoamerican pyramids, were built around 1100AD. Aztec pyramids were not only built for religious reasons, but they were also built to be the centre of their cities, symbolising the "mountain of the city" which, in Aztec belief, brings wealth and fertility to the citizens.
The Ancient Mesopotamians, Ancient Assyrians and Ancient Sumerians also built pyramid-like structures called Ziggurats.
Ziggurats were generally religious temples influenced by astronomy.
Ziggurats began to appear around 2,200BC.
Ancient Babylonians are also known to have built an incredible pyramid called Etemenankia. However this structure has become a victim of time and conflict, being reduced now to just a few columns and the multi-coloured base that the pyramid once stood on. Therefore we do not know much about the Babylonian pyramid or how old it is.
The Ancient Chinese also built pyramid mounds above burial chambers of their emperors, full of terracotta armies and treasures. The Ancient Chinese pyramids were mostly made from dirt, therefore carbon dating on the older Chinese pyramids is pretty much useless, since the dirt obviously existed before the pyramids did. Many of the Chinese pyramids were purposefully surrounded by trees and vegetation to camouflage them into their surroundings. Because of this, many hundreds of Chinese pyramids remain hidden today or even completely destroyed by nature itself. The oldest Chinese pyramid was built in around 1,050BC. However, as stated above, carbon dating on these pyramids are very difficult.
TheIgbo people of Nigeria built pyramids known asNsude Pyramids, to honour their god, Uto. Carbon dating is too difficult to perform on these pyramids, as they were mostly made of mud and clay.
The Ancient Greeks also built pyramids, though most no longer survive.
The GreekPyramid of Hellinikon was built as a tomb forGreeksoldiers who died in the legendary battle for the throne of Argos.
There was also a pyramid built for Argives, who was killed in a battle around 669BC, but that has been lost.
Greek pyramids are believed to have originated around 2,000 BC.
Nubian pyramids in Sudan were built as burial grounds for kings and queens. They are steeper than Egyptian pyramids. There are at least 255 pyramids in Sudan (Egypt only has 138). They were believed to have first been built in 2600BC.
Ancient Koreans built pyramids to bury theirprestigiousleaders.Dangun, the founder of Ancient Korea (then known asGojoseon) is buried in apyramid. The oldest carbon dating on Korean pyramids seems to point to 668 BC.
The Ancient Romans are known to have built pyramid-structures, such as thePyramid of Cestius, which is a tomb forGaius Cestius. Most Roman pyramids have now been destroyed, but we believe they were used to bury important people. They originated around the end of the 1st century BC.
The Chola Empire, which is now Southern India, built granite pyramids for religious worship. They are still in use today by modern Indians. They were built around the 3rd century BC onwards.
Ancient inhabitants of Indonesia built step-pyramids structures. They were built because of the native belief that mountains and high places are abodes for the spirits of their ancestors. They were built around the 8th century.
Pyramids were built by ancient Egypt, they were used for tombs for their pharaohs. Lots of treasure has been found for use in the afterlife.
Pyramid construct before or after the death of the Pharaoh?
A pyramid or any other type of tomb was built during the reign of the Pharaoh
Did the draining of swampland in the Nile Delta provided room for many more pyramids to be built?
No, draining of swampland in the Nile Delta provided thousands of acres of new farmland.
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Who made the pyramid of Kukulcan?
It Was constructed by a famous Mayan man. He ordered men to construct it
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Four years make up an Olympiad, but, every two years there is an Olympics. What I mean about that is we just had the London 2012 Summer Olympics so two years later we will have the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia, then two years later we will have the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio De Gandea and so and so fourth. As you see there was a two year distance between the Summer and Winter Olympics, but there still was a four year distance between the summer Olympia's!!:)
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What kind of mortar was used to hold the stone together in the Egyptian Pyramids?
none they are made to fit <- original answer that is incorrect.
The casing stones, the outer stones, were cemented together with an unknown mortar that is hydraulic - the Great Pyramid was waterproof to keep out rains and flood waters from the inner temples.
The sphinx protected the great pyramids of Giza and the pharaohs held inside.
