Pyramids

That depends on how big a Pyramid you want to build, what you are using to build it, and whether you have money and assistance. If you are building with Legos, and you have the space and the resources, then ... say an hour or so. If you are building a full-scale pyramid out of sand without millions of dollars worth of equipment and resources and with no one helping you... more than your lifespan.

Because the gold was a lightning rod which, (when lightning struck) would power the pyramid's beacon system and call for extra-terrestrials.

Lots of limestone blocks and hundreds of thousands of slaves.

He was a Pharaoh in Ancient Egypt. He ruled in the 3rd Dynasty from 2630 BC- 2611 BC.

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The Pyramid of Khufu also known as The Pyramid of Cheops [his Greek name] or The Great Pyramid of Giza was built by the fourth dynasty pharaoh Khufu over a period of about 20 years as his tomb around 2550 B.C. It is the only surviving 'Wonder' from the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, is the largest pyramid ever built and is part of the Giza Necropolis. The links below will give you further information.

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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. 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.

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. A town was built for the crafts people and the scribes 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 who did all the heavy labouring jobs.

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. Day after day, year after year, the quarries rang with the sound of hammer and chisel on stone. Through the dust the bodies of unclothed quarry slaves stand out dark against the yellow stone. After the stone blocks are hacked out of the quarry face they are lowered onto sledges. A note of each load is taken down by a scribe.

From dawn to dusk, gangs of naked slaves dragged sledges loaded with stones each weighing about 2.5 tons each to staging areas at the base of the pyramid. Here the skilled masons chiselled the blocks to prescribed dimensions, smoothed the sides and squared the corners. Slaves then reloaded the sledge and began hauling them slowly up the ramp that spiralled around the emerging structure. The noise here was one of chanting slaves and the rumble of heavy sledges.

When the sledges reached the working level teams of slaves called setters shifted the blocks from the sledges into their designated positions. Toiling below were the tool makers, cooks, porters and guards under the watchful eyes of the scribes. Other slaves were employed in maintaining and extending the ramps as the pyramid grew. These ramps were made of rubble, bound together with tafla (a type of clay) and laid with planks to ease the passage of the ramps.

Barges made from papyrus reeds deliver fine limestone from quarries across the river and granite from Aswan over 400 miles upriver. Some of the granite stones from Aswan weighed up to 70 tons. Copper chisels were using for quarrying limestone but harder stones such as granite required stronger materials. Balls of dolerite, a hard, black igneous rock, were used in the quarries of Aswan to extract hard granite.

These dolerite "pounders" were used to pulverize the stone around the edge of the granite block that needed to be extracted. Teams of slaves would pound out the stone. At the bottom, they rammed wooden pegs into slots they had cut, and filled the slots with water. The pegs would expand, splitting the rock. Slaves would then lower the blocks onto sledges. Long lines of sweating naked slaves drag them along a causeway to the river where they were loaded onto barges and floated down the river.

I believe the Phoenicians either built the pyramids or helped egyptians build the pyramids, I also believe the Phoenicians= Phoenix fire bird of egypt, were either the true people from Atlantis or the direct descedents of Caananites which were the true Atlantaens.

The Pyramids of Giza

If you mean an Egyptian pyramid, you should only recycle it when it is of no further use. That is unlikely to happen.

During the years historical sites have been damaged by people "recycling" blocks of stone for their own use (building their own historic monument to themselves). Not a good idea.

Before the days of mass tourism it made good sense to recycle redundant and probably abandoned buildings. Why go to the trouble of quarrying when so much cut stone is available?

England would have been deprived of many of its fine medieval parish churches if stone had not been recovered from abandoned Roman villas.

Firstly, nobody is entirely sure that it was built by Kephren, but best estimates are that it was built 50 years before Cheop's pyramid.

So probably completed in 2505 BC or so.

3.7 tons. Wow!

Limestone is too soft for use as tools. The Egyptians built monument out of limestone using tools made of harder stone - Flint, granite, etc. (and some copper tools)

Depends on the size of the pyramid. According to Greek historian Herodotus 100,000 slaves were employed on the construction of the Great Pyramid of Khufu.

It is a triangle because it is the easiest to represent the data if you put it in a triangle it is easier to read it

For shelter and for there kings as a gift.
The Pharaohs had pyramids built as burial monuments. It is thought that they believed they precise location and structure of the pyramids would provide a direct pathway to the heavens.
Why did pharaohs build pyramids? They believed they would rule the land after their death.

If you count all the corners (vertices), That is five!

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where were the millions of limestone blocks for the three great pyramids quarried

Not very for a start the pyramids at Giza were built between about 2580 and 2500BC. I am not sure that mammoths still existed in 10000BC and if they did would not have been happy in the hot sun of ancient Egypt.

Its just good entertainment.

They made them soo sooo long they made everything long if u know what im saying ;)

The step pyramids were like practice pyramids. They were getting the engineering down and the "how to". I doubt that without them they would have been able to engineer the Great Pyramid.

Giza is where the three famous pyramids are. It is on the outskirts of Cairo.