Wednesday, November 25, 2009

How the Pyramids were Built

Pyramids are ancient pyramid-shaped structures which are known to be located in Egypt. There are 118 pyramids discovered in Egypt as of 2008. Most were built as graves for the country's Pharaohs and their consorts during the Old and Middle Kingdom periods. It is also known that the oldest pyramided to be built is called the Pyramid of Djoser which was built during the third dynasty.

Egypt is a country rich of stones so many of the pyramids were built with a number of different stone materials. Most of the material used was fairly rough, low grade limestone used to build the pyramid core, while fine white limestone was often employed for the outer case as well as to cover the inside walls, even though pink granite was also used on inner walls, mud bricks were used to build walls within the temples.

The question of who built the pyramids and how exactly where they built has long been debated by many Egyptologists and historians, and they still didn’t not reach a certain answer into who actually built the pyramids, there has also been an article that stated that pyramids were actually built by aliens!!

Of course this remains as history, but it definitely appreciated to have such voluble thing in our world, not to mention that the pyramids of Egypt are considered as the one of the 7 wonders of the world.

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