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For our blog post number seven we have to write about something that we were interested about in Egypt, so I decided to write about the Egyptian’s pyramids. The Egyptians thought that an ordinary tomb would not fit a pharaoh of Egypt. Instead the Egyptians built a mountain like structure for a pyramid. The pyramid’s structure was so gigantic that it was the size of several city blocks. The Egyptians built the pyramids to protect the dead bodies of pharaohs from floods, wild animals, and grave robbers. To build the pyramids it took thousands of people and years to complete just one pyramid. Most of the work was done by farmers during the Nile’s floods. Each pyramid sat on a square base, with the entrance facing north. The way the Egyptians determined the amount of stone needed for a pyramid, also the angles necessary for the wall, they made advances in mathematics. Skilled artisans used copper tools to cut stone into huge blocks. Other workers would tie the blocks to wooden sleds, and pull them to the Nile over a paved path with logs. A pyramid may have also represented a stairway for the king to ascend to the heavens. The picture at the left side is a sand picture Of colorful pyramids I made.  That is why I have chosen to write about pyramids because they needed a lot of work to be completed and they were important for many reasons.

There are about 110 pyramids currently know in Egypt, there are only two pyramids that I think are the best out of all pyramids. The earliest pyramid was the Step Pyramid of  king Djoser of the Old Kingdom’s third Dynasty over 4600 years ago. Its construction was initially in the form of a low mastaba tomb. The entrance was sealed with a three-tonne granite plug. The largest pyramid ever built was the Great Pyramid at Giza. It was built for king Khufu, this pyramid was completed around 2550 BC. It is estimated that the pyramid contains approximately 2,300,000 blocks of stone with an average weight of 2.5 tonnes each and some up to 15 tonnes.Those pyramids are my absolute favorites, and I am glad that I was able to write about something I am really interested about.