What could possibly have made 10,000’s of people work for over a decade to construct the great pyramid in an age when mammoths still walked the earth? Religious reasons where have been the primary motivator for the construction. Economic reasons unique to Egypt helped. Cultural forces helped shape it, and the construction itself shaped culture. Rocks where cut and hauled from hundreds of miles away to build the great pyramids. Why? The Egyptian of the time believed the pharaoh or king, was a semi divine spokesman of the gods. The pharaohs and his subjects believed that in order for the pharaoh to continue protecting the people of Egypt after his death, his body need to be preserved and protected. The very shape and construction
