Egypt Pyramids Construction

Slideshow of Egypt Pyramids

Egypt Pyramid construction remains the mystery of ancient world challenging human knowledge after 50 centuries.
Watch Egypt pyramids Slideshow and see what Napoleon Bonaparte saw in the 18th Century!

About Egypt pyramids Construction

- Purpose of construction: Unknown (believed by many to be a graveyard for the King)
- Commencement and completion dates: between 2686 (B. C) and 2181 (B. C)
- Estimated duration: unknown (believed to be 20 years)
- Building materials: 2.3 million natural rocks, each 2.5 ton in weight.
- Estimated construction manpower: 20,000 - 30,000 laborers.
- Cost : Unknown (believed to be nil, for compulsory use of workers).

Reasonable theories - with yet no proof-  to the Construction of Egypt Pyramids:

. The construction of Egypt pyramids was carried out in layers, where fill was placed around each layer, with reasonable slopes, thus acting as scaffolding for the next layer. Upon completion the fill was excavated, to the original ground level.

. The original material of the construction was clay, and by processing clay, after placing, it reached the solid shaped state.

. The pyramids were constructed much earlier than the era thought, and human beings were much taller then!

. Egypt pyramids were constructed by excavation of the surrounding soil, i.e., the original natural ground level at that place was actually the highest point of the pyramid.

. Are the pyramids what is referred to in the verse " Pharaoh said: "O Chiefs! no god do I know for you but myself: therefore, O Haman! light me a (kiln to bake bricks) out of clay, and build me a lofty palace, that I may mount up to the god of Moses: but as far as I am concerned, I think (Moses) is a liar!"

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Egypt Pyramids Slideshow :

Whether it was an observatory, a magical temple, a work by aliens or work by the people of the fabled Atlantis,  it is there magnificent, and challenging human knowledge and technology; as to how was it ever possible to transport 2.5 million blocks of stone to such heights in an era  when the cranes and loader were unknown!
- Who is that man who has been fascinating the world along history till date with this construction?
- Were they four pyramids and not three? Where was the forth pyramid built and who built it?
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Account of Egypt A fascinating account of ancient Egypt by the world's first historian. The wonders of Egypt, composed by Herodotus - a master story-teller and the world's first journalist - in the fifth century BC.

Spell of Egypt Traveler's tales of Egypt and her history, first published in 1911.'The wonders of Egypt man has made seem to increase in stature before the spirits' eyes as man learns to know them better, to tower up ever higher till the imagination is almost stricken by their looming greatness. Climb the great Pyramid, spend a day with Abou on its summit, come down, penetrate into its recesses, stand in the king's chamber, listen to the silence there, feel it with your hands - is it not tangible in this hot fastness of incorruptible death?...' -- Chapter 1