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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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The apex of an object is typically it's highest point, turning point, or climax. There fore the very tip of a pyramid would be its apex as long as you define one side as ground level (The base).
What is the height of the pyramid of quetzalcoatl?
The Great Pyramid of Cholula is arguably the largest in the world. Located in south central Mexico, it is only 180 feet high (55 meters) but is 1300 feet on a side, containing nearly twice the volume of the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt. The pyramid is built in a manner of a ziggurat, with wide levels rising slowly to the summit.
I'm thinking of Osiris, the god of the dead, but the feathers have got me confused. Thoth, the god of wisdom, had the head of a bird, but only the body of a man, not a mummy.
How would you describe a pyramid?
A 3D object that has a base with at least three sides and has a triangular face for each side that come to a point. If you mean an ancient pyramid, it is an important sacred monument which caps the Earth's energy at one of its many energy points. It channels and amplifies it to support and balance the many planes of existence. Do some REsearch and wake up please. Love and Light everyone! :)
No, actually it is a sign of god. It means that god is watching everything and everywhere. It is not a sign of Illuminati. It is used by Freemasons as well, but Freemasons aren't bad too.
Why did pyramids have hieroglyphics?
The pyramids would have hieroglyphics beacause they said happy things to the dead pharaoh/richpeasant
Did egpt build pyramids for all people who died?
No just the kings and queens or in other words people who were royal
Is there a pyramid under the sea?
Yes, there is a large pyramid in the Atantic Ocean, near Florida.
It is quite possible that there's another, near the Yonaguni Monument, near Japan.
What kinda traps are in the pyramids in Egypt?
The Traps
The curse
Above some tombs, curses were written or spoken by priests, most designed to bring bad-luck upon any who cared to go against the wishes outlined in the curse- namely "get out of here or else". Some traditional curses include:
""As for anybody who shall enter this tomb in his impurity: I shall wring his neck as a bird"'s."
""As for any man who shall destroy these, it is the god Thoth who shall destroy him.""
""As for him who shall destroy this inscription" He shall not reach his home. He shall not embrace his children. He shall not see success"."
Heavy stone plugs
Technically, these weren't actually traps, in that they were designed not to injure anyone. But these heavy plugs would have made it very difficult to enter the tomb. There was little dynamite in those days, except what risky gun powder could be obtained from China, and the only way of getting through was to chip away at it.
Falling Rocks
A convenient way of getting rid of an enemy was simply to drop a heavy rock on them. For this reason heavy rocks were placed above doorways, connected to wires or ropes that could bring it tumbling down on someone's head.
Hidden holes
These were holes, leading to steep pits below the tomb. They would have probably have had covers over them, about the size and shape of manhole covers, and would have been delicately balanced over the hole so that at a light step they would have fallen in.
Powders
The Ancient Egyptians had relatively advanced medicine, and they had certainly not neglected the art of murder in their studies of alchemy. Powders prepared by magic - men were placed in tombs and systems were rigged so that at a certain time (for example, when intruders entered the tombs) the powders, possibly with fatal powers would have been released into the air and inhaled by the intruders.
False well - cover
In many Egyptian tombs, wells were included in one of the halls. An old favourite was to put a false cover over the well, which worked on much the same principal as the "Hidden Holes".
Head wires
In some parts of the tomb, wires were placed at neck level. The idea was to decapitate anyone who walked into it. If placed at the right height, these wires could have been one of the most deadly and efficient traps used.
Sand
A seemingly useless substance, it was employed to cover the actual sarcophagus of the deceased to prevent robbers tampering with the body.
What are Energy Pyramids about?
Energy.
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Damage to the nerves (myelopathy) of the spinal cord caused by infection with the human T lymphotrophic virus type-1 is termed HTLV-1 associated myelopathy.
An example of using pyramid composition would be to have a large object in the center with smaller objects to the side.
What are some of the social marketing campaigns that the Ad Council of America has developed?
In addition, the Ad Council of America has developed a number of social marketing campaigns to address a variety of issues such as adoption, blood donation, booster-seat education, bullying prevention, child asthma attack prevention, obesity prevention,
When did they start building pyramids in Egypt?
during the Old Kingdom, a third dynasty Pharaoh called Djoser built the step pyramid at Saqqara c.2650BC
How did they make Khufu's pyramid?
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. They were supplied with food but not clothing, slaves went naked.
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 bare bodies of the 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, the rumble of heavy sledges and the swish of the overseer's lash.
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 Tura just 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 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. Slaves would then slide the blocks onto the barges.
At any one time as many as 30,000 workers may have been involved on this massive project. Some of them were professional craftsmen most however were slaves.
Which ecological pyramid always remains upright?
The pyramid of energy always remains upright because energy diminishes as it moves up trophic levels in an ecosystem. This is because energy is lost as heat during each transfer between trophic levels, leading to a decrease in available energy for higher trophic levels.
What are the theories about origin of Pyramids?
Most Egyptologists accept that the pyramids were all built by members of one family; 4th dynasty rulers. Khufu built the first of the pyramids, the Great Pyramid, his son Kafre built a second one (as well as possibly the Spinx), and Kafre's son Menkaure built the third.
There are more esoteric theories that space aliens built the pyramids, or that survivors of the doomed Mediterranean civilization of Atlantis built them. However, these theories are largely rejected, and have the added disadvantage of being largely motivated by prejudice, and the accompanying belief that an ancient African civilization could not possibly be responsible for building one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
