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The first pyramid: The step pyramid of Djoser is located at Saqqara. It was built during the 3rd Dynasty for Zoser (Djoser) by Imhotep. It is dated around 2630 B.C.

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In the early days of modern 'western' Egyptology, when Petrie, Breasted, Naville and others brought more scientific approaches to archaeology, dates around 3000 BC were figured to be the era of the pyramid builders. In other cultures, pyramid builders have been much more recent. The Great Pyramid and the Sphinx show no signs of erosion by the Great Flood that many ancient histories record. Using Biblical chronology as a null hypothesis to the standard hypotheses, the date of the Flood was about 2450 BC which means the famous Egyptian pyramids were constructed around 2200 BC.

John Romer and others have demonstrated the technologies used to build them. They did not take too long to build. The main reasons for constructing pyramids of that size, then desisting, were economic. They were expensive show-pieces of economy like Dubai's new great tower. Babel constructed a tower in circa 2200 BC. The pyramids might have been Egypt's response to Babylon just as Dubai's tower today is to Malaysia's great towers or those of other countries. The New York Empire State Building, built by a country that repudiated empires, colonialism and imperialism, is a puny building when compared with Dubai-Babylon's latest venture! The economies of Babel and ancient Egypt are back with us - it would seem, although Washington's Monument in the middle of the Smithsonian Park shows Egypt still had some hold over modern Washington!

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