Why did ancient people make pyramids?
The ancient egyptians made pyramids to house kings and queens' tombs. The pyramids were the rulers' final resting place.
(PS-I am fairly sure this is correct, however, if you are talking about the Ancient Egyptians look up the Great Pyramids of giza).
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How did the red pyramid turn red?
If you're talking about the red pyramid in the Red Pyramid then its because in Egypt red was a bad color and it meant blood and death (If you think black is a bad color in Egypt It's not black actually means rich soil.) and Set the god of war in Egypt wears red so that's how it glows red
Why is a sphere easier to make with clay than a pyramid?
It is easy to make a sphere into clay because the clay you just have to roll it and make it soft so it does not fall.
How was a large pyramid built?
Shortly after ascending the throne in 2589BC, Pharaoh Khufu commanded his overseer of works to prepare a burial place in keeping with his status as a god-king, a pyramid tomb far grander than anything that had been built before or since. A site was chosen on the Giza plateau west of the Nile across from his capital at Memphis. The site was surveyed and levelled to provide a foundation for Khufu's Great 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.
A town was built for the crafts people 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 Khufu'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. Day after day, year after year, the quarries rang with the sound of hammer and chisel on stone. Through the dust the naked bodies of 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, 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. Water is poured under the blades of the sledges to ease their passage.
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. 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.
Barges made from papyrus reeds deliver fine white limestone from Tura just across the river which will used to case the pyramid. Granite from Aswan over 400 miles upriver was used to build the internal galleries and chambers. 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 60 to 70 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.
Why did they put pharaohs into tombs?
Egyptians put pharaohs in tombs for the purpose of sending them into the afterlife with a lot of their property.
Some people say it either built by aliens or by people from Atlantis. The reality is that pyramids large and small were built by the ancient Egyptians.
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What is the mass of pyramid khafre?
5,0 million tons. Khufu's pyramid is estimated to be 5,9 million tons, the answer can be deduced from their relative volumes.
Why did the pharaohs build great temples and pyramids in acint Egypt?
Pharaohs built great temples and pyramids so when past they would have a place to lay rest or be remembered by.
Why did they need so many people to build a pyramid?
First, many, many people had to cut into the rock formations, and cut huge perfect stones to pile up for the pyramids.
Second, each of thousands of stones had to be moved from the rock quarry all the way to the pyramid location.
It took many people to build the wood structures needed to start building the halls and rooms that would be deep inside the pyramid.
If getting the stones to the pyramid took many people, then raising the stones and piling them atop each other was major. The stones were so terribly heavy that it took a bunch of manpower to raise them and position them.
So it would not take many decades to finish the pyramid, many work parties were formed to haul, raise, and lay the stones. To get the pyramid finished before the Pharoah died and would be buried in the pyramid, many, many thousands of people had to work together.
What is pyramid configuration?
symmetrical composition builds to a climax at the center, giving you a focal point at the middle.