In my report, I will discuss how the pyramids were built, what purpose they
served, the three pyramids at Giza, some messages found on the stones that were
used to build pyramids, and what a mastabas is. Pyramids are tombs built for
Egypt's pharaohs. Pyramids are large structures with four sides that are the
shape of a triangle, that meet at the top to form a point. The ancient Egyptians
used the pyramids as tombs for the pharaohs and temples for their gods. The
pyramids have one or two little temples attached to them, which holds their
relatives and servants. A few pyramids still stand today, and are great
attractions for tourists. The pyramids were built by taking blocks of granite to
the workshop, measuring the blocks down to size, shaping the blocks, and placing
the blocks into the body of the pyramid. The core of the structure is now
All Giza Pyramids in one shot. Русский: В...
The Pyramid of Khafre and the Great Sphinx of Giza...
English: Tourists riding a bactrian camel (Camelus...completed. Then, you place the limestone blocks on the top of the structure
(they started putting the blocks on top and then worked their way down). They
left two empty rooms to place the pharaoh and his belongings in. They sealed the
pyramids so well, it took four hundred years for two robbers to figure out how
to get in. The pyramids were built by free citizens, drafted for public work,
not by slaves of any sort. The pyramids were built by four thousand expert stone
sculptors all year round. An extra work group of about ninety-five thousand men
worked on the pyramids during the four month period of the inundation (the time
of enforced idleness for farmers, since the field were covered with the Nile
water flood ). The pyramids were built between the year 1600 B.C. and the year
2700. Many scholars believe that the reason why...