The magnificent Egyptian pyramids have been standing for thousands of years, continuing to amaze everyone who has ever seen them with their own eyes, and not in the photo. This is the only miracle of the world that has survived to this day, and it will probably stand almost forever. When people already fly to distant stars, the pyramids will still proudly rise in the desert.
They are made up of heavy limestone blocks bonded with a mortar, cut down in nearby quarries. They climbed to a height, probably with the help of ramps. One of the Egyptian pyramids – the pyramid of Cheops – is included in the list of seven wonders of the world. Its construction is still covered in secrets and myths. Three pyramids are located very close to the city of Giza, which is de facto a suburb of Cairo, the Egyptian capital. When measuring the Cheops pyramid, it turned out that its perimeter, divided by double height, gives the number Pi with an accuracy of one hundred thousandth. All the pyramids of Egypt are slowly but surely “melting”. For example, today from the original height of the Cheops pyramid – 146.6 meters – only 138.75 remains. In Egypt, there are many pyramids that were built at different periods of time. There are two types of these structures, stepped and all the rest. Step – the oldest, and it is within them that the graves are located. The total mass of all the blocks of which the Cheops pyramid is built reaches, according to scientists, 5 million tons. Climbing the pyramids is now prohibited. Violators of the law are quickly arrested by Egyptian police. Before the towers of Cologne Cathedral appeared in the 19th century, the Cheops pyramid was the tallest building in the world.
All Egyptian pyramids were built on the west bank of the Nile River, which is a place of sunset and associated with the kingdom of the dead in Egyptian mythology. The crypts of the Egyptian pharaohs are not inside the pyramids, as many mistakenly believe, but not far from them, in the Valley of the Kings. In the area of Ancient Egypt, about 140 pyramids of various sizes were discovered. The Egyptian pyramids were built not by slaves, contrary to popular belief, but by civilian workers. The Cheops Pyramid is the only one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World that have survived to our times. According to scientists, the construction of each individual pyramid lasted no more than 200 years, and this is the maximum estimate. Most likely, they were built in decades, not centuries. For centuries, scientists thought that the Egyptians used the pyramids as funerary structures. Today, other hypotheses have been put forward. One of them claims that each pyramid is a real “reference” of units of measure, mathematical quantities and measures of weight. Photography and video inside the Egyptian pyramids is prohibited. The Menkaur Pyramid is the latest and lowest of the three main pyramids in Giza, 66 m high and 108 m the length of the side of the base.
The blocks of stone are arranged so that there are no gaps or gaps between them. Even the needle will not go in! Although over the millennia, the solution with which the stone blocks were held together began to gradually crumble and collapse. The most ancient Egyptian pyramid is the Djoser Pyramid, which was built in the Necropolis of Saqqara about 4700 years ago. The last mammoths still wandered in some corners of the Earth when the ancient Egyptians were already building their pyramids. Inside the pyramids there are wall pictures depicting construction. The face of all the pyramids is curved by 100 cm. This is done so that each pyramid can absorb and accumulate the energy of the sun. The Cheops pyramid was made up of approximately 2.3 million perfectly even blocks. To our time, the pyramids have not reached their original state. And guilty of this is not so much time as people. To a large extent, the pyramids were sacked by “black archaeologists” who were not frightened by the legends of evil idols that kill buildings that penetrate inside. Initially, the pyramids were covered with facing stones made of well-polished white limestone. These stones reflected the light of the sun and made the pyramids shine like precious stones. The two largest pyramids, Cheops and Chefren, were built in two stages. Their construction was stopped for a long period, after which it was resumed. Why – no one knows. Estimates of the number of workers involved in the construction of the pyramids vary greatly, however, it is likely that at least 100 thousand people erected each of them. Each facet of each Egyptian pyramid is turned strictly to one of the cardinal points. The length of the faces of the Cheops pyramid at the foot varies by less than 5 centimeters. And this with a length of 250 meters each!
