The Egyptian pyramid of Cheops, a symbol of Egypt, is a real monument to human talent. Built-in time immemorial and using fairly primitive by modern standards technology, it has been successfully preserved to this day, and every year millions of tourists fly to Egypt to see it with their own eyes.
She is the only one of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World that has survived to this day. The remaining pyramids were never included in this list. The Cheops Pyramid covers an area of about 54 hectares. On the site occupied by her, it would be possible to place the five largest cathedrals of our planet. Scientists still have not been able to figure out the composition of the solution with which the ancient Egyptians fastened stone blocks together. Some scientists believe that the Cheops pyramid is a repository of standards of ancient measures and weights, as well as a model of the known linear and temporal measurements characteristic of our planet and based on the principle of rotation of the polar axis. There is also a theory that the Cheops pyramid is a calendar. A number of Egyptologists are trying to prove that it serves as both a theodolite and a compass, and so accurate that the most modern compasses can be checked with it. About 100 thousand people worked on the construction of the Cheops pyramid. Moreover, it was built by free people, not slaves, and their work was well paid. The Cheops pyramid is penetrated by many narrow tunnels connecting its inner part to the surface. They are too narrow to serve as moves, but they are not similar to ventilation. What they are is still a mystery.
Part of the Cheops pyramid is open for tourists to visit, but it is forbidden to shoot video or take photos inside it. Despite the fact that around it, in a red-hot desert, the temperature sometimes reaches 50 degrees Celsius, the inside of the pyramid is always cool, only +20 degrees both day and night. There are three burial chambers in the Cheops pyramid, and they are not located nearby, but one above the other. Outside, the Cheops pyramid is lined with granite slabs. A cork was made of granite, which closed the entrance to its inner part, located at an altitude of more than 15.5 meters from the base. Scientists have calculated the volume of the Cheops pyramid. Now it makes 2,350,000 cubic meters, but earlier it was 170,000 cubic meters more. However, due to the fact that the pyramid was used for several centuries as a quarry, it suffered a bit. About 2,200,000 stone blocks stacked in 210 rows were used to build the Cheops Pyramid.
There is a myth that this pyramid can be seen with the naked eye from orbit, from the ISS. However, this is not so. The faces of the Cheops pyramid are very precisely oriented to the cardinal points. It is still unclear how the ancient Egyptians managed to achieve such accuracy. However, due to the gradual movement of the North Pole in our time, the orientation of the pyramid is somewhat lost. Tourists inside the Cheops pyramid are not launched through the original passage, but through a huge break made by one of the caliphs. He hoped to find treasures inside the pyramid, but did not succeed. For about 4,500 years, the Cheops Pyramid was the tallest building on Earth. She lost this title only in 1880. The perimeter of its base reaches 922 meters.
The weight of the Cheops pyramid is estimated at 5,000,000 tons. Now its top is broken off, and the height of the pyramid is 137.3 meters. But earlier, after completion of construction, it was higher – as much as 146.7 meters. Archaeologists and historians have established that the construction process of the Cheops pyramid lasted about 20 years. This is not much, especially when you consider that Cologne Cathedral, for example, was built for about 600 years. When the researchers first managed to get inside the pyramid, they could not find a single mummy. All burial chambers were empty. In Egypt, annually on August 23 is celebrated the day the construction of the Cheops pyramid begins.
