Egypt was unified into one Kingdome around 2900 years ago. The rulers, the pharos, chose the Nile delta city of Memphis as their first capital. Pyramided building began during the Old-Kingdome , reaching its highest level with the construction of the Giza pyramids. The product of Epoch of magnificence, these inaccessible structures, symbolized the potion of the god-king pharaohs.
The largest and best know pyramid is the one that belongs to Pharaoh Khufu (Greek:cheaops) , who reigned from 2589 to 2566 BCE. The pyramids was originally clad in polished white limestone panels, of which a few fragments survive today. The rest were broken off to build houses in Cairo. The second of the three pyramids (one in the middle) , carries the name of Cheaops' son, Chephren who reigned from 2558 to 2532 BCE. The …show more content…
The preparation and leveling of the building site alone took ten years and the labor of some 4,000 men. The construction of the pyramid itself involved at least 100,000 workers and took an additional twenty years to complete. Since pyramid construction seems to have been taken during the three-month long, annual agriculture land was covered with water, there was an agriculture ample work force available to build any humongous monuments to the pharaohs whose very existence, it was believed, made the life-giving flood possible. The individual blocks of stone were between 2 1/2 and 5 1/2 feet in height, with eight men workers assigned to each block. They hauled each block out of the quarry, heaved it into a wooden sled, and transported it over a log-paved road to the bank of the Nile. There, they loaded "their" block onto a bark, conveyed it to the other side, and then farther to the building's site. They then heaved the stone block again, this time up a ramp leading to its designated position in the
The largest and best know pyramid is the one that belongs to Pharaoh Khufu (Greek:cheaops) , who reigned from 2589 to 2566 BCE. The pyramids was originally clad in polished white limestone panels, of which a few fragments survive today. The rest were broken off to build houses in Cairo. The second of the three pyramids (one in the middle) , carries the name of Cheaops' son, Chephren who reigned from 2558 to 2532 BCE. The …show more content…
The preparation and leveling of the building site alone took ten years and the labor of some 4,000 men. The construction of the pyramid itself involved at least 100,000 workers and took an additional twenty years to complete. Since pyramid construction seems to have been taken during the three-month long, annual agriculture land was covered with water, there was an agriculture ample work force available to build any humongous monuments to the pharaohs whose very existence, it was believed, made the life-giving flood possible. The individual blocks of stone were between 2 1/2 and 5 1/2 feet in height, with eight men workers assigned to each block. They hauled each block out of the quarry, heaved it into a wooden sled, and transported it over a log-paved road to the bank of the Nile. There, they loaded "their" block onto a bark, conveyed it to the other side, and then farther to the building's site. They then heaved the stone block again, this time up a ramp leading to its designated position in the