Question:
im building the pyramid of giza?
Losa
2012-06-01 15:06:52 UTC
i scaled down the measurements of the real pyramid but when i drew it out the base is a lot smaller than the side lengths of a side and the side is very long and thin. if i put it together, it wouldnt be proportional
Three answers:
2012-06-03 23:36:09 UTC
The Great Pyramid of Giza (also called the Pyramid of Khufu and the Pyramid of Cheops) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact. It is believed the pyramid was built as a tomb for fourth dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops in Greek) and constructed over a 20-year period concluding around 2560 BC. The Great Pyramid was the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3,800 years. Originally the Great Pyramid was covered by casing stones that formed a smooth outer surface; what is seen today is the underlying core structure. Some of the casing stones that once covered the structure can still be seen around the base. There have been varying scientific and alternative theories about the Great Pyramid's construction techniques. Most accepted construction hypotheses are based on the idea that it was built by moving huge stones from a quarry and dragging and lifting them into place. There are three known chambers inside the Great Pyramid. The lowest chamber is cut into the bedrock upon which the pyramid was built and was unfinished. The so-called Queen's Chamber and King's Chamber are higher up within the pyramid structure. The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only pyramid in Egypt known to contain both ascending and descending passages. The main part of the Giza complex is a setting of buildings that included two mortuary temples in honor of Khufu (one close to the pyramid and one near the Nile), three smaller pyramids for Khufu's wives, an even smaller "satellite" pyramid, a raised causeway connecting the two temples, and small mastaba tombs surrounding the pyramid for nobles



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2016-12-04 10:40:19 UTC
they could incredibly incredibly be man made. The Egyptians geared up the pyramids to honor their pharaohs and to help them get to the afterlife. They have been an fairly resilient human beings. Many procedures have been shown that could desire to enable the slaves to delivery the cloth. Others have shown how they might have carved the ingredients. Others have shown how they might have stacked them and geared up them using notches. They have been additionally very solid at arithmetic. they might have used the celebs to calculate due North. they could line it up with sticks placed vertically interior the floor. To point the pyramids, they probably geared up a moat around the section, and then leveled off the section interior so as that the water become in spite of the exterior in any respect factors. i think of one important ingredient you're lacking is their wonderful guy skill. Societies immediately might draw back from a job like that, yet they did it for honor and that become needed. yet another important factor is that it took them an fairly long term to construct only one pyramid, a minimum of 25 years, in all possibility 30. immediately's technologies could desire to create a pyramid, incredibly incredibly. even with the shown fact that, we don't very own the force to undertake this variety of job. No, our cranes would not be plenty use, yet you get a tractor trailer and build some ramps and you're solid to flow. The Egyptians have been neither stupid nor lazy, and we could desire to continuously admire their wonderful manpower and could extremely than defer the greatness of to 'Gods.'
Charlie
2012-06-01 15:51:44 UTC
See sites below on how to build a model of the pyramid of Giza.


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