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Pyramids

Imagine living in Ancient Egypt about 3,000 B.C. Imagine a society teeming with life and happiness. Imagine looking around and seeing beautiful buildings, fields of crops, and the great pyramids with their white limestone facade blazing in the sun of the midday. It would be quite the experience to have lived back then.

The history of Egypt begins with the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt into one united kingdom. The first ruler under this new system was Menes. Thirty other dynasty's would follow. To further unify Upper and Lower Egypt Menes founded a capital city where the two met: at the apex of the Nile, where it fans out into the silt plain. This city was named "White walls" by the Egyptians but later called Memphis by the Greeks. It is here at Memphis that the great pyramids where built.

The pyramids were built to house the dead pharaoh of that time. Death was seen by the Egyptians as just the beginning of a journey to the other world. In Egyptian society each individual believed that his eternal life was dependant on the continued existence of their king, a belief that made the building of the pyramid a concern of the entire kingdom. Many people would be called to duty to work on the pyramids and man


When the king died he was taken to be embalmed at special ceremonial place across the river, when that was done he would be taken down the river by boat to the ramp of his pyramid. The funeral procession would proceed up the ramp into the ceremonial chamber where the priest would bless the king. The king was then taken to his burial chamber deep below the pyramid and then sealed there for all eternity.

The pyramids built on the Giza plateau at Memphis are the largest of all of the pyramids. The largest is the Great Pyramid, or the pyramid of Khufu. It stands 450 feet high. The second largest is the pyramid of Khafre. It stands 448 feet high and still has some of the original limestone at the top. The third is the pyramid of Menakaure.

In early tombs, the central area was the burial chamber. The other surrounding rooms contained the king's furniture, jewelry, and other things that were owned by the King. False doors of heavy stone represented passageways between these rooms and others. There were no real doors because it was believed that the king, in the afterlife, would be able to move about without the help of structural passageways.

Furniture and riches not to mention body parts of the dead king were buried with him in the pyramid, so that in the afterlife the king would be able to have all the comforts that he had in his life. Wives and people of high standing in the king's court were buried beside his tomb when they died. The queens pyramid was always much smaller than the kings. The other wives and attenda

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