Pyramids are large stone structure with four triangular sides inclined up to a common point.

They were about 147 meters.It could take 20 years long

Engineers of the pyramids

The engineers of the pyramids set the pyramids square so that the sides faced the main points of the compass To get the blocks of stone into place, workers used sleds,wooden roolers, and levers.Building pyramids was dangerous work.Each year ,men lost their lives , crushed by folling blocks.

Pyramids inside
Inside the pyramids, there was the dead kings room. It was filled with gold,books , treasures and other deaths belongins, in order to be used in the after life.

 The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the World, besides being the largest of the pyramids of Egypt. It was ordered to be built by Keops, a pharaoh of ancient Egypt

 In ancient times it was called the Great Pyramid, because it seemed to be higher than the pyramid of Keops. This effect is due to that is located at a higher level of the plateau. Currently, the pyramid of Kefren is higher than the pyramid of Keops because the latter has eroded.

 The pyramid of Menkaure is the smallest of the three famous pyramids in the necropolis of the Giza Plateau.

We can learn more about the Egyptians, through their process of mummification.

 A body that has been preserved for burial by embalming and wrapping in bandages. The Egyptians believed that once someone died they had to pass through the under world to get to the paradise.

Mummification steps:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Announcement of death. Embalming the body. Removal of brain. Removal of internal organs. Drying out process. Wrapping of the body. Final procession

Mummification steps
A messenger announced the persons death in the steets. Workers carefully removed the brain and internal organs The body was covered with salts and stored for about for 40 days, and let it dry out. It was then wrapped with long linen bandages.

 Egyptians never took the deaths heart because they thought that the gods of the underground would judge the mummys heart. Anubis was the god of the deaths.