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[intutive]

The pyramids were constructed as tombs for kings and queens, as parts of funerary complexes, where there would also be shrines and temples. The priests would summon the spirits of the deceased royalty and make offerings to ensure their immortality would be realized.

Many pyramids were built between 2700 and 1640 BC and there are still plenty surviving today, although many were reduced to rubble.

An architect with the name of Imhotep was the first master pyramid builder. He began by making a tomb in the shape of a mastaba, which is a long, flat, rectangular building, made of sun-baked mud bricks. The walls stood about 12 feet high.

Imhotep used stone to build with and kept adding to the tomb until he had made a six layered, stepped pyramid, which stood 200 feet high. This was the Step Pyramid and Saggara, the first Egyptian monument to be made completely from hewn stone.

Imhotep was greatly respected and worshipped, after his death, as a god. His incredible achievement is still standing today at Memphis, south of Cairo.

[Jeniekrag]

The pyramids of Egypt are known to be one of the most important ancient sites of the world. These pyramids are secrets of ancient time. The construction of these pyramids is still a question mark in the minds of the historians. The pyramids include:

1. Pyramid of Khufu
2. Pyramid of Khafre
3. Pyramid of Menkaure

Some other pyramids are pyramid of Djoser, Pyramid of Userkaf, Pyramid of Teti, Pyramid of Snofru, Red Pyramid, Pyramid of Niuserre, Pyramid of Nefrirkarre Kakai, Sahure Pyramid etc and many more.

[jamesbond]

I wish discoverys belonged to all the people of earth and not just the agencys and countrys with the most power. Like every other finding we will know about it eventually, but ofcourse not all the information and not all at once. We keep making the same errors, which is keeping the knowledge from the people who needs it.

[JohnGoldSmith]

The pyramid of Khufu, also called Great Pyramid is the only existing structure among the seven wonders of the ancient world. This is the tallest pyramid among the three other pyramids situated in the area. This is located in the area of Giza. his pyramid has significance that it has both, upward and downward stairways.

[PatriciaH]

In "Archaeology," Bob Brier points out that there are still many unanswered questions about how the pyramids were constructed. Scholars have suggested that workers may have used ramps on the outside of the pyramid to take blocks to the upper levels. Herodotus, an ancient historian, mentioned that the ancient Egyptians used machines to lift the blocks. One French architect, Jean-Pierre Houdin, theorizes that the stones were lifted to the top using ramps inside the pyramid.