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Ancient Egyptian Pyramids - Mystery of Egypt


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Pyramids of Egypt When one thinks of Egypt it is hard to do so without seeing the pyramids of Giza in the mind's eye. These piles of limestone or mud brick are the oldest known manmade structures on our planet and have actually survived longer in the period known as BCE (before the common era) than they have in CE (the common era). Since the dawn of recorded history they have been an enigma, and this continues through to the present day, with more books and papers being written about them than any of the other ancient monuments in Egypt. Library shelves, throughout the world, are full of the various theories about how they were built, why they were built, and why they are located in certain places; and the full gambit of writing is used in these theories; from the well researched and referenced volumes, to the ones which, quite frankly, deserve to be in either the science-fiction sections or the children's ones.

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Pyramid of Sakkara Inte Saqqara is one of the most extensive archaeological sites in Egypt! It was the cemetery for Memphis, the capital of Ancient Egypt, yet it is still one of the virgin archaeological sites, despite the fact that so much has already been found here!

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Pyramids of Giza Inte Among the major tourist sites, there is only one considered to be “The major� and on top of any list - are the Pyramids of Giza. There are three main Pyramids here, which were built in the 4th Dynasty (circa 2550 B.C). The Pyramids of Ancient Egypt were built as tombs for Kings (and Queens), and it was the exclusive privilege to have a Pyramid tomb. However, this tradition only applied in the Old and Middle Kingdoms. Today there are more than 93 Pyramids in Egypt; the most famous ones are those at Giza. Pyramids of Giza

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Pyramid of Meidum Inte Meidum Pyramid is located 65 Km to the south of Sakkara. To visit to it you simply drive along the road that takes you to Sakkara, go pass that site, and continue straight on for about an hour until you see the Pyramid. There is another way to reach Meidum that is a little longer, but a lot faster. You take the road to the Fayoum Oasis and then join the Assyut desert road. After about 77Km you will see the Pyramid on your left side. There is an admission fee of 25 LE.

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Pyramid of Dahshour Inte The Pyramids of Dahshour always evoke in us a great part of the history of Ancient Egypt. Although this area is not a major tourist site, like the Giza Plateau, it seems to me like a wonderful book, which tells us great, glorious, events of Ancient Egyptian History. Dahshour is one of the most important cemeteries, which belonged to the vast necropolis of the great Ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis.

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Pyramids of Abusir Inte In Abu sir there are total of about 14 pyramids in this site. The pyramids belong to the fourth dynasty Abusir is located at a 2.5 KM to the north of Sakkara and about 12 Km south of the pyramids of Giza.

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Pyramids of El_Lisht Inte This pyramid is built by Amenmehat I who changed the governing system of Egypt to be more centralized, Amenmehat I changed the capital of Egypt from Thebes where his ancestors ruled in the South and established a new city that was situated somewhere to the North to be in the middle between Upper Egypt in the South and Lower Egypt in the North.

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Pyramids of Hawara Inte The Pyramid of Hawara near the Fayoum was constructed by Amenmehat III, the sixth Pharaoh of the 12th dynasty of the Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt around 1850 BC.

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Pyramids of Abu Rawash Inte The pyramids belongs to Djedefre who reigned at the fourth dynasty after king khufu. The king reigned for about 8 years in total. His pyramid is in a very ruined condition today. The pyramid itself has a massive 49m channel cut into the bedrock to a 20m deep shaft.

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Pyramid of Lahoun Inte The site of El - Lahoun is the southernmost pyramid structure in Egypt. Its builders reduced the amount of work necessary to construct it by ingeniously using as its foundation and core a 12 meter high natural limestone hill. The pyramid core is composed of cross walls of limestone over knoll of rock (3 courses are seen to the left, the lower 2 are covered with the lower 2 are covered with hornet mud nests). Binding the bricks together are small amounts of mortar and a filling of sand.

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