The Egyptian pyramids are some of the most mysterious and unusual structures ever created by man. The name "pyramid" is customary to refer to all Egyptian buildings that have a shape that resembles a pyramid. But only a few of them can be called pyramids from a geometric point of view. These include, in particular, the great pyramids at Giza.
These buildings have an ideal pyramidal shape. The biggest one is world famous pyramid of Cheops... She is one of the seven wonders of the world. But the pyramids are located not only in Giza, but also in other parts of Egypt. A large number of pyramids are found in Sakkara, Dakhshur, Meidum, Abusir. The Egyptian pyramids attract many scientists, archaeologists and historians, and some facts about them do not fit into the traditional history of the development of civilizations.
Interesting Egyptian Pyramids Facts:
The largest Egyptian pyramid is the Pyramid of Cheops at Giza. Its height is about 139 meters. Initially, its height was almost 10 meters higher, but after the destruction of the cladding, it decreased. Its base is a square with a side of 230 meters. It took the construction of such a pyramid over 2.5 million blocks... On average, each of the blocks weighs about 2-3 tons. It is the tomb of the great Pharaoh Cheops (Khufu).
Age of the pyramids
Many scientists date the age of the most ancient pyramids 2650-2600 BC... One of the very first is the Djoser pyramid. But some scientists believe the pyramids are much older. Using new advances in science, they suggest that some of the pyramids are over 10,000 years old. Thus, if we take this age into account, it turns out that the first pyramids were built at a time when mammoths still lived on the planet.
Dynasties and pyramids
Almost all the dynasties of the Egyptian kings left their mark on history in the form of pyramids. At present, no pyramids have been found belonging to the first and second dynasties. The predecessors of the pyramids are considered mastabas... These are ancient Egyptian trapezoidal structures, which are the tombs of kings. The beginning of the construction of the pyramids is associated with the third dynasty. The most famous and largest pyramids at Giza are from the fourth dynasty.
Pyramid device
Most of the pyramids are almost monolithic structures, with long corridors and small rooms. So, each pyramid has a main entrance. It leads to the main corridor, which forks in two, one going up and the other down. The lower one leads to underground chambers, which lie much deeper than the base of the pyramid. The upper one, in turn, expands and turns into a spacious gallery leading to the tomb of the king.
It used to be thought that thousands of slaves were used to build the pyramids. They were brought to the great construction site from all over the kingdom. But in the vicinity of the pyramids, no mass graves were found, confirming the large number of slaves who died at the construction site. Recently, archaeologists have found many household and residential buildings that refute slave labor in the construction of the pyramids. So the builders had granaries, hostels, places for healing, canteens and even a brewery. This suggests that the pyramid builders had a fairly high standard of living at that time.
Imhotep and the pyramid of Djoser
Before the appearance of the great pyramids at Gisea, the tombs of the kings had a different look. The pyramids of the third dynasty consisted of several volumetric trapezoids stacked on top of each other. At the base lay the largest trapezoid to the top, they decreased. The first of these pyramids is considered to be the pyramid of Djoser, built by Imhotep. It was he who invented this form for tombs. Imhotep also developed a special method of masonry from hewn stones. This method was later widely used in the construction of the pyramids.
The walls of galleries and tombs inside the pyramids are painted with various hieroglyphs and images. Moreover, each hieroglyph and image was not chosen by chance and carries a religious meaning. They usually depict the life accomplishments of the deceased, a kind of instruction for the transition to the afterlife, and more. Also, in one of the pyramids, images were found that looked like a tank, a helicopter and a flying machine.
The legend of the curse of the pyramids
In various films and stories, the legend of the curse of the pyramids is quite common. It says that everyone who entered the tomb and disturbed the peace of the pharaohs will be cursed and die soon. The basis for this opinion was an article in the 1920s in one of the newspapers, which said that all participants in the excavation of Tut's tomb died under mysterious circumstances.
In fact, many of the scientists were elderly people, which may explain their death within a few years after participating in the excavation. Some of the participants lived after the expedition for more than a dozen years.
One of the pyramids in Dakhshur has a broken shape. From the base to the middle, the angle of inclination of the sides is about 54 degrees, and from the middle to the top about 43 degrees. Some researchers believe that the pharaoh Snephr, for whom it was built, died prematurely and in order to speed up the construction, the angle of inclination was changed. Another version is that the facing on other pyramids with the same angle fell off and the angle was changed in order to avoid this.
Purpose of the pyramids
The pyramids are the tombs of the kings of Egypt. It is believed that it becomes the home of the pharaoh after death and therefore everything that will be useful to him in the afterlife was placed in it. His wives, concubines and slaves were also buried together with the pharaoh. According to another version, the pyramids are intended to go to another world. For this, according to archaeologists, a vertical shaft was made in the tomb.
The Pink Pyramid is located in Dahshur. It is the largest of the Egyptian pyramids apart from the great pyramids of Giza. This pyramid gets its name from the material from which it is made. This limestone in the rays of the setting sun gives it a pinkish hue.
Other pyramids
Pyramids exist not only in Egypt, but also in other parts of the world. For example, there are pyramids in Central and South America. They are slightly different from the Egyptian, but, nevertheless, have many similarities with them.
The following facts are interesting - during the construction of the pyramids in Giza, huge blocks weighing several tons were used, and inside the pyramid of Cheops there are blocks weighing up to 80 tons... Moreover, they are made with high precision. Questions arise: how did people process, deliver and lift them up? Indeed, even with modern technology and science, we cannot do much of this. There are several hypotheses: they possessed technologies unheard of for us, they were helped by some more advanced race (possibly alien), the builders possessed a magic crystal that helps in construction.
Facts about the great pyramids in Giza: they have a strict orientation to the cardinal points, the angle of inclination is 52 degrees, the deviation between the ribs is no more than 5 centimeters with a base side length of more than 200 meters.
An interesting video about the secrets of the pyramids:
Egyptian pyramids, even photos, are of great interest. It is one of the largest attractions in the world. They, according to scientists-archaeologists, represent the tombs of the pharaohs, members of their families and court nobles. This version is generally accepted and the finding of mummies inside is considered to be its confirmation. What are these structures? Who built them and how? What for? What's inside? You can find answers to questions in this article.
Egyptian pyramids: a symbol of what?
During the period of the Old Kingdom (c. 2707 - 2150 BC, III-VI dynasty), structures began to be created for burials, symbolizing the sacred mountain - the desire of mankind to reach heaven.
Scientists suggest that the belief of the Egyptians in the ascension of the spirit to the gods is fundamental the purpose of their construction... In their opinion, even today, these structures personify a person's dream to reach the Higher Consciousness.
Egyptian pyramids: photos and videos about the secret of construction
Several theories are trying to explain the technology of their construction, but no one knows exactly how and why these famous architectural monuments were built. There are only versions and assumptions.
One of the greatest mysteries: how did humans move such massive stone blocks using primitive tools? The Egyptians left behind thousands of illustrations depicting daily life in the Old Kingdom. Curiously, none of them show their construction.
But maybe these images are simply not in the eyes of a modern person? Perhaps, looking at the drawings, we are not able to see their method of creating grandiose structures, since he dramatically different from modern views? Here's what information can be found on the Internet.
- The usual explanation is the manual labor of thousands of slaves who cut out pieces of rock, dragged and installed them.
- It is believed that some of the monuments consist of cast sections, similar to modern concrete buildings.
- There is a version of using certain sound vibrations to move multi-ton blocks. The version is even confirmed by experiments and some photographs of images of frescoes.
Director Florence Trana's film Solving the Mystery of the Pyramid of Cheops presents an interesting version by French architect Jean Pierre Rouden of building with an internal ramp. The evidence presented is convincing enough. See detailed research by a Frenchman. Does he seem to have solved the mystery of the Egyptian pyramids?
Who was the architect of the first pyramid?
The earliest known pyramidal structures are found at Saqqara, northwest of Memphis. The oldest of these is the Pyramid of Djoser, built between 2630 and 2611. BC. during the third dynasty, the first adviser to the king, architect and builder, the high priest of Ra in Heliopolis, the poet and thinker Imhotep. He is considered the founder of such an architectural form, proposing to build three more smaller ones above the main one. His tomb has not been determined to this day. Therefore, there is no mummy of Imhotep either.
Where are the most famous Egyptian pyramids located?
By the way, in the video "The Mystery of the Egyptian Pyramids", which is placed above, the author confirms the possibility of a 20-year construction period.
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The top of one of the pyramids in the Cairo Museum
An interesting fact is that there is no sharp corner at the top. Usually, when the construction was completed, the upper part, the so-called upper stone, was made last. It was considered the most important and was often made of valuable rock or even gold. Pyramid of Cheops - without a pointed top. Was she always like this or the top stone was stolen, no one knows. But there is information where visitors from the time of Christ report the absence of a spearhead.
At the top there is a large flat area measuring 9X9 m. Another fact: on the back of a dollar bill you can see an image of a pyramid with a flat top. This is an image of the back of the Great Seal of the United States. Are these facts related? If you know, please write in the comments.
Many explorers and tourists climbed to the top. The last "pyramid climber" in 2016, 18-year-old German tourist Andrei Cheselski, managed to see Egypt from the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza. He made an illegal climb and was arrested by the police. For your information: climbing to the summits is prohibited after several accidents. Special permission required.
Interesting facts include those that some occult researchers of the mystery of the Egyptian pyramids spent the night in the inner chambers. They wrote books about their mystical experiences.
"Secrets of the Pyramids (The Mystery of Orion)" by R. Buval, E. Gilbert offers a version of the stellar orientation of buildings.
The American prophet and medium Edgar Cayce spoke about the significance of the pyramids for the lost civilization of Atlantis. Information is available on the Internet.
How are the pyramids arranged inside?
The entrance to the Great Pyramid of Cheops is located on the north side at a height of about 15 m above the ground. After a descending short entrance tunnel, there is an ascent up a corridor leading to a large gallery and finally to the above-ground burial vaults, which makes it unique.
Other pyramid interiors only have a tunnel system that leads to underground chambers. Treasures from the buildings have been removed and are available for viewing in world famous museums such as the British Museum (britishmuseum.org), the Egyptian Museum in Berlin (egyptian-museum-berlin.com) and the Italian Museum of Turin (museoegizio.it).
However, nearby there is the Museum of the Solar Boat, where a boat is presented, taken out of the ground at the foot of the pyramidal structure. To learn more about the world's oldest ship, watch the video.
What other pyramids can be seen in Egypt?
Of interest are Step pyramid of Djoser(located in Saqqara) and
others in Dahshur, among which there are Broken and Pink pyramids.
As of November 2008, the approximate number of such objects was from 118 to 138.
Pyramid texts
The buildings of the 5th and 6th dynasties have preserved for posterity the texts found on the walls of the interior. This is the oldest religious literature called "Pyramid Texts". These monuments give the impression of sloppy construction: poorly processed stones that crumbled over time and turned into hills.
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The pyramids are architectural monuments of Ancient Egypt known to everyone. The pyramids of Cheops and Giza are one of the seven wonders of the world. The pyramids are huge pyramidal stone structures that were used as tombs for the pharaohs. The word "pyramid" - Greek, means polyhedron. In total, more than 118 pyramids of various shapes and heights were discovered in Egypt.
Ancient Egyptian architecture, even today, amazes with the power of its huge stone structures. At the entrance to these structures, there are huge statues of the pharaohs, there are sphinxes made of stone. The Sphinx - in Ancient Egypt - the embodiment of royal power, a statue depicting a fantastic creature with the body of a lion and the head of a man or a sacred animal.
The Great Pyramid of Cheops is the face of the Egyptian pyramids and the largest structure of antiquity. The construction of the pyramid took two whole decades and was completed in 2560 BC. At 146.5 meters high, it has been the largest structure in the world for over 4 millennia. The weight of the pyramid is over 6 million tons. The area of this giant is about 5 hectares. The Pyramid of Cheops consists of 2.3 million stone blocks.
The second most important is the pyramid of Chephren, the son of Cheops. It was built on a 10-meter plateau, so it seems to be higher than the Cheops pyramid, but it is not. Its height is 136.4 meters. Not far from the pyramid of Khafre is the Great Sphinx - a monument carved into the rock. The facial features of the Sphinx repeat the face of Pharaoh Khafre.
The crypts of the Egyptian pharaohs are not inside the pyramids, as many mistakenly believe, but not far from them, in the Valley of the Kings. According to one theory, the Egyptians mastered the mathematical "principle of leverage" to build the majestic pyramids. But, at the same time, in this way it would have been possible to build the Cheops pyramid in a century and a half. Whereas it appeared in just two decades. The Egyptian pyramids were built for about two centuries in a row. While one was being built, another appeared on the sands.
For more than four millennia, the pyramids that inspire respect and even awe have stood in the sands of Egypt. The tombs of the pharaohs look like aliens from another world, they contrast so strongly with the environment and their scale is so great. It seems incredible that thousands of years ago people were able to erect structures of such a height that, with the use of modern technologies at that time, it was possible to surpass only in the 19th century, and in terms of volume they have not surpassed until now.
Of course, theories about the "other" origin of the pyramids could not but arise. Gods, aliens, representatives of disappeared civilizations - whoever was not credited with the creation of these majestic structures, simultaneously attributing the most incredible properties to them.
In fact, the pyramids are the work of human hands. In our age of an atomized society, when the joining of efforts of several dozen people for the sake of achieving a common goal already seems like a miracle, even large-scale construction projects of the 20th century look incredible. And to imagine that the ancestors were capable of such a union thousands of years ago, you need to have an imagination at the level of a science fiction writer. It's easier to attribute everything to aliens ...
1. If you still did not know this, the Scythian burial mounds are pyramids for the poor. Or how to look: the pyramids are mounds for the poor in land. If it was enough for the nomads to drag a pile of earth to the grave, then the Egyptians had to carry thousand-ton boulders - the sand mounds would be blown up by the wind. However, the wind also covered the pyramids with sand. Some had to be dug up. Large pyramids were more fortunate - they were covered with sand too, but only partially. Thus, a Russian traveler at the end of the 19th century noted in his diary that the Sphinx was covered with sand up to his chest. Accordingly, the Pyramid of Khafre, standing next to it, seemed to be lower.
2. The first serious problem in the history of the pyramids is connected with the sand drifts. Herodotus, who described and even measured them, does not mention a word about the Sphinx. Modern researchers explain this by the fact that the figures were covered with sand. However, the measurements of Herodotus, albeit with slight inaccuracies, coincide with the modern ones, made when the pyramids were cleared of sand. It is thanks to Herodotus that we call the largest pyramid the "Pyramid of Cheops". It is much more correct to call it the "Pyramid of Khufu".
3. As often happens with ancient travelers or historians, from the creations of Herodotus one can learn more about his personality than about the countries and phenomena he describes. According to the Greek, Cheops, when he did not have enough money to build his own burial complex, sent his own daughter to a brothel. At the same time, he built a separate small pyramid for his own sister, who combined family responsibilities with the role of one of the wives of Cheops.
Heterodyne
4. The number of pyramids, oddly enough, fluctuates. Some of them, especially small ones, are poorly preserved or even represent a heap of stones, so some scientists refuse to consider them pyramids. Thus, their number varies from 118 to 138.
5. If it were possible to disassemble the six largest pyramids into stones and cut tiles from these stones, it would be enough to pave the road from Moscow to Vladivostok 8 meters wide.
6. Napoleon (then not Bonaparte yet), having estimated the volume of the three pyramids in Giza, calculated that from the available stone it is possible to encircle the perimeter of France with a wall 30 centimeters thick and 3 meters high. And the launch pad of modern space rockets would fit inside the Cheops pyramid.
Napoleon is shown a mummy
7. To match the size of the pyramids-tombs and the territory on which they were located. So, around the pyramid of Djoser there was a stone wall (now it is destroyed and covered with sand), which fenced off an area of one and a half hectares.
8. Not all pyramids served as tombs of pharaohs, there are less than half of them. Others were intended for wives, children, or had a religious purpose.
9. The Pyramid of Cheops is considered the highest, but the height of 146.6 meters is assigned to it empirically - this would be the case if the facing had survived. The actual height of the Cheops Pyramid is less than 139 meters. The crypt of this pyramid can fully fit two middle two-room apartments, stacked one on top of the other. The tomb is faced with granite slabs. They fit so well that a needle does not fit into the gap.
The Pyramid of Cheops
10. The oldest pyramid was built for Pharaoh Djoser in the middle of the 3rd millennium BC. Its height is 62 meters. 11 tombs were found inside the pyramid - for all members of the pharaoh's family. The robbers stole the mummy of Djoser himself in ancient times (the pyramid was robbed several times), but the remains of family members, including a young child, have survived.
Djoser's pyramid
11. When the ancient Greek civilization was born, the pyramids stood for a thousand years. By the time of the founding of Rome, they were two thousand years old. When Napoleon, on the eve of the Battle of the Pyramids, exclaimed pathetically: “Soldiers! They look at you for 40 centuries! ”, He was mistaken by about 500 years. In the words of the Czechoslovak writer Vojtech Zamarovsky, the pyramids stood when people considered the moon a deity, and continued to stand when people landed on the moon.
12. The ancient Egyptians did not know the compass, but the pyramids at Giza are very clearly oriented to the cardinal points. Deviations are measured in fractions of a degree.
13. The first European entered the pyramids in the 1st century AD. NS. The multi-talented Roman scientist Pliny turned out to be lucky. He described his impressions in the VI volume of his famous "Natural History". Pliny called the pyramids "evidence of senseless vanity." Saw Pliny and the Sphinx.
14. Until the end of the first millennium AD. NS. only three pyramids were known at Giza. The pyramids were opened gradually, and the Menkaur pyramid was unknown until the 15th century.
Pyramid of Menkaur. The trail of the Arab assault is clearly visible
15. Immediately after the construction of the pyramids were white - they were faced with polished white limestone. After the conquest of Egypt, the Arabs appreciated the quality of the cladding. When Baron d'Anglure visited Egypt at the end of the 14th century, he still saw the process of dismantling the facing stone for construction in Cairo. He was told that white limestone had been "mined" in this way for a thousand years. So the cladding did not disappear from the pyramids under the influence of the forces of nature.
16. The Arab ruler of Egypt, Sheikh al-Mamun, deciding to penetrate the pyramid of Cheops, acted as a military leader besieging the fortress - the wall of the pyramid was hollowed out with battering rams. The pyramid did not give up until the sheikh was told to pour boiling vinegar on the stone. The wall began to gradually move, but the sheikh's idea was hardly a success, if he was not lucky - the break accidentally coincided with the beginning of the so-called. Great gallery. However, the victory disappointed al-Mansur - he wanted to profit from the treasures of the pharaohs, but found only a few precious stones in the sarcophagus.
17. There are still rumors about a certain "curse of Tutankhamun" - anyone who desecrates the burial of Pharaoh will die in the very near future. They began in the 1920s. Howard Carter, who opened the tomb of Tutankhamun, in a letter to the newspaper's editorial office that he and several other members of the expedition had died, stated that spiritually, contemporaries did not go far from the ancient Egyptians.
Howard Carter is somewhat surprised by the news of his painful death
18. Giovanni Belzoni, an Italian adventurer who wandered all over Europe, in 1815 concluded an agreement with the British Consul in Egypt, according to which Belzoni was appointed the official representative of the British Museum in Egypt, and the Consul Salt pledged to buy from him the acquired values for the British Museum. The British, as always, pulled the chestnuts out of the fire by proxy. Belzoni went down in history as a grave robber, and was killed in 1823, and the British Museum "preserved for civilization" a lot of Egyptian treasures. It was Belzoni who managed to find the entrance to the Khafre pyramid without breaking the walls. Anticipating prey, he burst into the tomb, opened the sarcophagus and ... made sure that it was empty. Moreover, in good light, he saw the inscription on the wall, made by the Arabs. It followed from it that they did not find the treasures either.
19. For about half a century after Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, only the lazy did not plunder the pyramids. Rather, the Egyptians themselves plundered, selling the relics they found for a pittance. Suffice it to say that for a small amount, tourists could watch the colorful spectacle of the fall of the facing slabs from the upper tiers of the pyramids. Only Sultan Khediv Said in 1857 forbade robbing the pyramids without his permission.
20. For a long time, scientists believed that the embalmers who processed the bodies of the pharaohs after death knew some special secrets. Only in the twentieth century, after people began to actively penetrate the deserts, it turned out that dry hot air preserves corpses much better than embalming solutions. The bodies of the poor, lost in the desert, remained practically the same as the bodies of the pharaohs.
21. Stones for the construction of the pyramids were mined by trivial carving. The use of wooden stakes, which tore the stone when wet, is more a hypothesis than an everyday practice. The resulting blocks were pulled out to the surface and polished. Special craftsmen numbered them near the quarry. Then, in the order determined by the numbers, by the efforts of hundreds of people, the blocks were dragged to the Nile, loaded onto barges and taken to the place where the pyramids were built. The transportation was carried out in full water - an extra hundred meters of transportation by land extended the construction for months. The final grinding of the blocks was carried out while they were in place in the pyramid. Remains of traces of painted boards, which checked the quality of grinding, and numbers on some blocks.
There are still blanks ...
22. There is no evidence of the use of animals to transport blocks and build pyramids. The ancient Egyptians actively raised livestock, but small bulls, donkeys, goats and mules are clearly not the kind of animals that can be forced to do the hardest work every day. But the fact that during the construction of the pyramids, animals went for food in herds is quite obvious. According to various estimates, from 10 to 100,000 people worked at the same time on the construction of the pyramids.
23. Either in Stalin's times they knew about the principles of the Egyptians when building the pyramids, or the inhabitants of the Nile Valley developed an optimal scheme for using forced labor, but the breakdown of labor resources looks surprisingly similar. In Egypt, the pyramid builders were divided into groups of up to 1,000 people for the most difficult and unskilled jobs (analogous to the GULAG camp). These groups, in turn, were divided into shifts. There was a "free" bosses: architects (civilian specialists), overseers (VOKHR) and priests (political department). Not without "idiots" - stone cutters and sculptors were in a privileged position.
24. The whistling of whips over the heads of slaves and the terrifying mortality during the construction of the pyramids are the inventions of historians closer to the present. The climate of Egypt allowed free peasants to work in their fields for several months (in the Nile delta they took 4 crops a year), and they were free to use the forced “idle time” for construction. Later, with the increase in the size of the pyramids, they began to be attracted to the construction site without consent, but so that no one would die of hunger. But during the breaks for cultivating the fields and harvesting the crops, slaves worked, they were about a quarter of all employed.
25. Pharaoh of the VI dynasty Piopi II did not waste his time on trifles. He ordered to build 8 pyramids at once - for himself, for each of the wives and 3 ritual ones. One of the spouses, whose name was Imtes, betrayed the sovereign and was severely punished - she was deprived of her personal pyramid. And Piopi II still surpassed Senusert I, who built 11 tombs.
26. Already in the middle of the 19th century, "pyramidology" and "pyramidography" were born - pseudosciences that open people's eyes to the essence of the pyramids. By interpreting Egyptian texts and various mathematical and algebraic actions with the size of the pyramids, they convincingly proved that people simply could not build pyramids. As of the end of the second decade of the 21st century, the situation has not changed dramatically.
26. You should not follow the pyramidologists and confuse the accuracy of the facing of the tombs with granite slabs and the fit of the outer stone blocks. The granite slabs of the interior claddings (by no means all!) Are fitted very precisely. But the millimeter tolerances in the external masonry are the fantasies of unscrupulous interpreters. There are gaps, and quite significant ones, between the blocks.
27. Having measured the pyramids up and down, the pyramidologists came to an amazing conclusion: the ancient Egyptians knew the number π! Replicating discoveries of this kind, first from book to book, and then from site to site, the experts obviously do not remember, or have not already found the mathematics lessons in one of the elementary grades of the Soviet school. There, children were given round objects of various sizes and a piece of thread. To the surprise of schoolchildren, the ratio of the length of the thread, which was used to wrap round objects, to the diameter of these objects, hardly changed, and was always slightly more than 3.
28. Above the entrance to the office of the American construction company The Starrett Brothers and Eken hung a slogan in which the company that built the Empire State Building promised to erect a life-size copy of the Cheops Pyramid at the request of the customer.
29. The Luxor entertainment complex in Las Vegas, which often appears in American films and TV series, is not a copy of the Cheops pyramid (although the association “pyramid” - “Cheops” is understandable and forgivable). For the design of Luxor, the parameters of the Pink Pyramid (the third largest) and the Broken Pyramid, known for its characteristic broken edges, were used.
The ancient Egyptian pyramids at all times attracted people with their gigantic size and unique appearance, but especially the secrets hidden in them.
Built as tombs for the rulers - the pharaohs of the ancient kingdoms, in the period from 2800 to 2250. BC, they are one of the most voluminous and technically advanced structures built by man at that time. Nowadays, the pyramids are the most popular excursion sites in Egypt.
The pyramids are pyramidal stone structures that have survived to this day in almost their original form, despite the considerable age of these giants, the destructive force of nature and the vandalism of some local residents. The tomb of the ruler Cheops, built in Giza and included in the "Seven Wonders of the World", is considered the largest pyramid.
All questions regarding the technology of building the pyramids, their internal filling and decoration, the origin and skill of the builders haunt the scientists of the whole world all the time. Studying the interior of the pyramids, the preserved things of the rulers and their entourage, scientists all the time make amazing discoveries and findings that shed light on the life of ancient people, their way of thinking, religion and science.
An uncountable number of expeditions were organized to the region of Cairo and Giza, where the largest number of necropolises is located, but no definitive answers to all these questions have been received.
How could ancient people, without special equipment, extract huge blocks from rocks for construction, process them, deliver them to the construction site and raise them to the required height? Who were the ancient builders and where did they get the skills and experience in performing such works in such a tight and shortest time frame? Why or why are the faces of the pyramids strictly oriented to the cardinal points? Are buildings of this scale the work of human hands or were there some outside forces involved in this process? On the basis of what ideas and guesses during the construction was this particular shape of the polyhedron chosen? For what purposes and rituals were the interior spaces and some items of the pyramids intended?
Until now, scientists and engineers, treasure hunters and just adventure lovers pay close attention to this original and unique historical heritage of the ancient Egyptians. And it is not yet known how many secrets and discoveries are still hidden behind the thick walls of the pyramids.
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The pyramids built in Ancient Egypt are the greatest architectural monuments around the world. They are recognized as a component of the seven wonders of the world, the Pyramids of Cheops and Giza are recognized. They are magnificent structures erected entirely of stone and in the form of pyramids. In the past, they were used as burial places for pharaohs.
“Pyramid” was translated from the original language and meant “polyhedron”. Some of the historians say that the prototype of the pyramids was wheat stacked in haystacks. Others say that in Egypt, funeral pies of a similar shape were baked and the name came precisely from the name of this funeral cake. For all the time, about 118 magnificent structures of various sizes were built.
- Many believe that the crypts of the pharaohs were located right inside the pyramids, but in fact they were left in a special place called the Valley of the Kings.
- One of the historical theories says that each of the majestic pyramids was built using the principle of a lever, which they opened, and then successfully used it in practice. At the same time, the Egyptians managed to build the pyramid of Cheops in two decades, although according to calculations, the construction time should have taken about a century and a half.
- All stones are located in such a way that even a human hair cannot pass between them. This fact amazes historians and architects who cannot restore this accuracy even with the help of modern technology.
- Each side of the pyramids is located clearly in the direction of the cardinal points. Each face of the pyramid is curved exactly one meter, which allows the sun to focus on each face.
- The walls of the pyramid depict how the Egyptians built the pyramids, all points step by step.
- The height of the largest pyramid is 146.6 meters and the calculated weight is 6 million tons. And it covers an area of about 5 hectares of land.
The construction of the Egyptian pyramids is still a mystery, modern architects and scientists cannot understand how ancient people, without the use of advanced technologies, were able to build such masterpieces of architecture that could survive millennia and preserve their original appearance.
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