The building of the Egyptian pyramids

by Autumn Baccellia

In the beginning of the Old Kingdom and from the political power and wealth that the Early Dynasty Period had secured had helped increase the centralization of government and the creation of an efficient administrative sys...read more

by Trixze Smith

The Great Pyramid covered an area equivalent to seven city blocks. At 482 feet tall, it was the highest structure until the 19th century. It consists of over 2 million blocks, each weighing about 3 tons. The entire site wa...read more

by Mike Romeling

We really can't say much about the building of the pyramids. That's mostly because the Egyptians - if indeed they built them - had almost nothing to say about it themselves. That may be the oddest thing indeed among a host...read more

by Maurice Sassoon

The pyramids are the great stone tombs that were built thousands of years ago to hold the bodies of the Egyptian pharaohs. There are many pyramids that still stand in the desert along the River Nile, which is approximately...read more

by William Remski

The Egyptian pyramids are one of the wonders of the ancient world. They were old when the Greeks wrote their first histories. How such gigantic structures were built in the time before powerful machinery is a mystery. W...read more

by Anurag Ghosh

Giza, an enigmatic city in Egypt, home of the mysterious sphinx, the pyramids of Khufu (Cheops),khafra and mankara.These pyramids located 8km/5mi SW,enchant every traveler and lover of ancient pyramids .These oldest stone...read more

by Bob Chawk

Tomb or Temple? Original Egyptian tombs were no more than mounds with sloping edges and flat tops called mastabas. King Djoser's architect layered six sequentially smaller mounds one upon the other, forming the first S...read more

by Adam Dorado

We can ascertain that the great pyramids are not the product of Egyptians, but the culture of the predecessors of the Ancient Egyptians since the Egyptians were former slaves of the Babylonians who most definately built th...read more

by gemini girl

How were the pyramids built? This question has puzzled scientist for centuries and still continues to puzzle experts today. To date, there has been no documentation or clues that have given Egyptologists answers about the ...read more

by Frank Steiger

It is generally accepted that the larger Egyptian pyramids were constructed using mud rubble ramps to move the stone blocks to the placement level. This theory lacks credibility. The single ramp illustrated in many referen...read more

by Steven Spencer

by Steven Spencer You know their saying the pyramids were built before the Egyptians.How did they get them 1 ton blocks 110 ft. in the air...read more