PYRAMIDS

HOW ARE PYRAMIDS BUILT?

• The ancient Egyptian who built the pyramids
• may have been able to move heavy stone blocks across the desert
• by wetting the sand in front of a contraption built to pull the heavy
• objects, according to a new study.
• Many of the pyramids were built with different stone material.

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• Most of the material used was fairly
• rough low grade limestone to build the pyramid core, while fine white
• limestone was often employed for the outer casing as well as to the cover

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• Though pink granite was also often used on inner walls.
• Basalt or alabaster was not uncommon for floors, particularly in the mortuary
• temples and as was mudbricks to build walls within the temples
• (though often as not they had limestone walls).

WHO BUILT THE ANCIENT PYRAMIDS?

• The people who built the pyramids were the ancient
• Egyptian slaves.
• Ancient egypt got slaves from Greece, Rome,
• and southern states of the USA.

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• Most ancient Egyptian pyramids were built as
• Tombs for Pharaohs and there entire family.
• It would take almost 100,000 workers to build a
• pyramid.

WHAT IS THE BIGGEST PYRAMID?

• Until the Eiffel Tower came along in 1889, the Great Pyramid of Giza
• was the tallest structure in the entire world, Despite being nearly 4,500 years old!
• The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in
• the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt. It is the oldest of the Seven
• Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact.

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• Over 2 million blocks of stone were used to build The Great Pyramid of
• Giza, during a 20 year period ending around 2560 BC.
• An other name for the Pyramid of Giza is The Great Pyramid of Khufu.
• The Great Pyramid of Giza is 479 feet tall!

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