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Pyramids

Pyramids. Resting place of the Pharaohs. Just How Many ?. Between 80-113 pyramids Most are just rumbles, thus difficult to identify Pyramids have 4 triangular sides that meet at a point. Why build them?. Built as a final resting place for a royal pharaoh Tombs are huge and elaborate

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Pyramids

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  1. Pyramids Resting place of the Pharaohs

  2. Just How Many ? • Between 80-113 pyramids • Most are just rumbles, thus difficult to identify • Pyramids have 4 triangular sides that meet at a point

  3. Why build them? • Built as a final resting place for a royal pharaoh • Tombs are huge and elaborate • goal was to demonstrate “I’ m a powerful ruler” • Allow the dead to catch a Sun beam & join Re’s daily boatride

  4. Pyramids changed • The earliest pyramids are called “Step Pyramids” • Over time, construction improved and they became perfectly smooth-A true Pyramid

  5. Great Pyramids of Giza • 10 are located in Giza • The Big 3 are known as “The Giza Pyramids” • Khufu • Khafre (car-free) • Menkaure (Men-ku-ray)

  6. The Great Pyramid • The first, and largest, was erected for the Pharaoh Khufu. • Known as the “Great Pyramid” (450 feet) covers 13 acres. • 100,000 laborers took 20 years to build

  7. Construction • Average stone block weighs 2½ tons • They are perfectly square • Made of limestone • Fit is so perfectly tight, a piece of paper can’t fit in the space between two blocks

  8. The Khufu’s Pyramid • Considered one of the 7 wonders of the world • For many hundreds of years, Khufu was the tallest structure on earth

  9. Labor Force Slaves built only a small part of the pyramids (Jews from Exodus) Peasants certainly played a major part They were laborers, farmers, and craftsmen working for their “god” Evidence shows a guild “Friends of Khufu”

  10. The accepted ideas • Blocks were cut at a quarry • When the Nile flooded, blocks were floated acrossstream to a loading pier • Placed on wooden sleds

  11. The accepted ideas Cont’d 4) The crates were pulled with ropes while sliding on wet clay 5) Probably a combination of ramps and cranes were both used

  12. Inside the Pyramid http://www.pbs.org/wnet/pharaohs/digging.html

  13. Inside the Pyramid A series of passages and chambers Much is still being learned about them

  14. Sphinx • A Muslim destroyed the nose when Egyptians were making offerings (not Napoleon's soldiers!) • Pieces of his beard are in the British Museum

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