Who really built the pyramids?
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A race of people from the planet known to the ancient Sumerians as NUBI.RU, the 10th member of our solar system. They built them as a method of navigation, as baum_e said above. Their atmosphere was dwindling when they came to Earth around 750,000 years ago, during the ice age, as a result of NIBI.RU's highly elliptical comet-like orbit; they came here to mine gold to be ground into fine particle that would orbit the planet and somehow insulate the planet from outgassing. In the process they created humanity using DNA from the Homo Erectus around at the time mixed with their own to create a primitive worker ("ADAM.U"). They built the pyramids as a form of navigation, built on specific lines of latitude. Their planet, having an orbital period of about 3,600 years, will return in 2012 for its 200-somethingth return since then, as will the race that lives upon it. There will be war.
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It may have been used by the Aztecs. However, it was constructed by a much earlier civilization (one which existed in the 8th and 9th c). The name of the site comes to us through the Aztecs, Teotihuacan. We do not know much about the beliefs and practices of Teotihuacan civilization. For the Aztecs the entire site was revered as the place where the gods gathered together to create the world. Certainly, the association with the sun is completely conjectural. Presumably , the assocation with the sun is based on the axial layout of the site. the Pyramid is oriented east-west, along the path of the sun. Although the site as a whole is much more oriented north-south, as evidenced by the 'avenue of the dead' stretching from the 'pyramid of the moon' in the north to the 'ciudadela' in the south.
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The aztecs were building pyramids long before the egyptians in South America!
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The building of royal tombs in the form of pyramids started during the 3rd Dynasty. The Step Pyramid was designed by the architect Imhotep for King Djoser (may also be spelled Zoser; ca. 2620 B.C.) \nKing Snofru experimented with mathematical pyramids (i.e. smooth, without steps). His son Cheops (or Khufu) built the Great Pyramid at Giza. The second and third pyramids at Giza were built by Chefren and Mykerinos (Menkaure) respectively. They were considered as one of the ancient wonders of the world. The above mentioned kings are of the 4th Dynasty (ca. 2575-2465 B.C.), the pinnacle of pyramid building. During the 5th and 6th dynasties pyramids were no longer built of massive stone, but with a core of rubble and on a smaller scale. During the Middle Kingdom (ca. 2040-1640 B.C.) pyramids usually had a core of rubble or mud brick. During the New Kingdom (1550-1070 B.C.) Pharaohs were buried in rock-cut tombs in the Valley of the Kings, which is dominated by a natural pyramid. \nThe Nubian Pharaohs Piye (also known as Piankhi) and Taharqa built pyramids at el-Kurru in Nubia (ca. 725 and 680 B.C. respectively). Between 250 B.C.-350 A.D. Meroe was the burial site for the kings of the Nubian kingdom, who built pyramid tombs. These Nubian pyramids are smaller in size and more steep than the earlier Egyptian pyramids.
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They used the same technology the egyptians used to build the pyramids.  Except they used wood, instead of stone.
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... Something about triangles, right?\n\nThey had an empire, I think...  or was it just a kingdom?  Or do they elect a president... Mubarak?  Does that sound familiar?  Were they muslims or pagans???  There was this guy Tut and he had a mummy...  Steve Martin says he was born in Arizona but he got a home in Babylonia and was a boy king and had more money than Midas...  I'm not sure if all of that is correct.  Midas had a lot of money.  There's also something... maybe... about a huge dam and reservior on the Nile... or up the Nile... something like that.  Egypt fought Israel after the God of Israel dumped a bunch of plagues on them, but that was after Egypt apparently enslaved a bunch of jews to build some fancy cemetaries.  Maybe the jews are still pissed off about that.  There was Cleopatra, who was aparently the first Ms. Universe and apparently she dug rich Italian guys.  Then there are those hieroglyphics... it would be more fun to make pictures of words than write phonetically, but I guess it makes it easier to learn the language if it's phonetic.  SO they made the Rosetta stone so they could talk to other people.  REM says "Egypt was troubled by the horrible asp.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah."  MAybe they hired an exterminator because that was past-tense...  They had some big library on the coast...  but it wasn't a public library?  But then somebody screwed it all up.  They failed to correct Alexander's delusion that he was a god.  I guess you'll do anything to get creepy thugs like that off your back though and he DID march way off to India next, so I guess it worked for a while.\n\nBasically, they did a bunch of stuff.  Built a few wonders of the world.  You know, not much.
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http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/egypt_pyramids.htm
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You mean the young Pharaoh of Egypt Tutankhamen? Here is some info on him: http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761557167/Tutankhamun.html
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you mean tomb?\nwell, the pyramids of Egypt are thought of as tombs. so they are the biggest ever.
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A) There are 3 great pyramids at Giza. I'm supposing you mean the largest, the one for Khufu or Cheops as the Greeks called him.\n\nB) Its purpose was twofold. One, to hold in security for eternity the fleshly remains of the Pharaoh and two, to allow his spirit, or ka, to ascend to the heavens with ease and to find its way back home with equal ease.\n\nC) There are those who maintain that simply because the pyramid was unadorned, unfilled with either treasure OR mummy, that it must have had some other purpose, perhaps mystical or paranormal. Sorry. A far more likely explanation was that it was left unfinished when news came that an earlier pyramid had been successfully broken into and robbed. Khufu didn't think quite so highly of HIS final resting place after that and probably made arangements for his body and his goodies to be interred someplace a lot more secret than a 450 ft. tall 3 acre monument one can see from the moon!
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THERE ARE NO PYRAMIDS ON MARS it is an optical effect caused by shadows also if the aliens built the ones on mars 7000,000 years ago they would not line up exactly with the ones on earth as the earth is constantly shifting and even 10,000 years of movement would put them out by at least a meter.
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-------The Great Pyramid of Giza\n\nA gigantic stone structure near the ancient city of Memphis, serving as a tomb for the Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu.\n\n\n\n-------The Hanging Gardens of Babylon\n\nA palace with legendary gardens built on the banks of the Euphrates river by King Nebuchadnezzar II.\n\n\n\n-------The Statue of Zeus at Olympia \n\nAn enormous statue of the Greek father of gods, carved by the great sculptor Pheidias.\n\n\n\n-------The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus\n\nA beautiful temple in Asia Minor erected in honor of the Greek goddess of hunting and wild nature.\n\n\n\n-------The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus\n\nA fascinating tomb constructed for King Maussollos, Persian satrap of Caria.\n\n\n\n-------The Colossus of Rhodes \n\nA colossus of Helios the sun-god, erected by the Greeks near the harbor of a Mediterranean Island.\n\n\n\n-------The Lighthouse of Alexandria\n\nA lighthouse built by the Ptolemies on the island of Pharos off the coast of their capital city.
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Egyptians did NOT build the great pyramids at Giza but did build many smaller, cruder pyramids.  The Bent Pyramid is one example of the ones they did build.\nThe main question is this: How could the ancient Egyptians emerge from the stone age, build a structure as big as the Great Pyramid at Giza, build a slightly smaller one, then never build another one to match either one?  Supposedly Khufu had the GP built, but there is absolutely not one shred of evidence that he did.  NOt one cartouche, wall inscription, nothing inside it.\nEither Altlanteans or aliens built it.
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Pyramids.  Need I say more?  :o)\n\nSeriously, they did a lot of building.\n\nSue
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1.The Great Pyramid of Giza \nA gigantic stone structure near the ancient city of Memphis, serving as a tomb for the Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu \nAt the city of Giza, a necropolis of ancient Memphis, and today part of Greater Cairo, Egypt\n\n2.Euphrates river by King Nebuchadnezzar II \nThe Hanging Gardens of Babylon \nA palace with legendary gardens built on the banks of the \nOn the east bank of the River Euphrates, about 50 km south of Baghdad, Iraq\n\n3.The Statue of Zeus at Olympia \nAn enormous statue of the Greek father of gods, carved by the great sculptor Pheidias. At the ancient town of Olympia, on the west coast of modern Greece, about 150 km west of Athens. \n\n\n\n4.The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus \nA beautiful temple in Asia Minor erected in honor of the Greek goddess of hunting and wild nature \nThe ancient city of Ephesus near the modern town of Selcuk, about 50 km south of Izmir (Smyrna) in Turkey. \n\n\n \n5.The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus\nA fascinating tomb constructed for King Maussollos, Persian satrap of Caria. In the city of Bodrum (f.k.a. Halicarnassus) on the Aegean Sea, in south-west Turkey. \n\n \n\n \n6.The Colossus of Rhodes \nA colossus of Helios the sun-god, erected by the Greeks near the harbor of a Mediterranean Island. At the entrance of the harbor of the Mediterranean island of Rhodes in Greece. \n\n\n\nThe Lighthouse of Alexandria \nA lighthouse built by the Ptolemies on the island of Pharos off the coast of their capital city. On the ancient island of Pharos, now a promontory within the city of Alexandria in Egypt.
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This answer is about pyramids in Egypt. Pyramids were also constructed in ancient Greece and Mesoamerica. Flat topped pyramids were constructed in ancient China.\n\nPyramids in Egypt served as tombs, initially only for kings and close members of the royal family, but eventually came to be used (in much smaller forms) by the general populace.\n\nThe pyramid is thought to have developed out of the mastaba tomb. Mastaba is an Arabic word, meaning bench, which was applied to the flat-topped, slope sided superstructures of tombs. The pyramid is also thought to be associated with solar worship and the "ben-ben" stone which played a major role in sun worship and was vaguely pyramid shaped.\n\nIn the 3rd Dynasty, several mastabas were stacked forming the Step Pyramid of King Djoser. By the 4th Dynasty in the reign of Snefru attempts at building a true pyramid were underway. The pyramids of the 4th and 5th Dynasties, including those at Giza, essentially reflect the further refinement of the pyramid, the chambers within it, and the associated temple complexes. Eventually the standard style was an orientation of east to west (significant in Egyptian religion), with a pyramid temple, located directly on the east side of the pyramid, and a causeway leading to the "valley temple" located near the Nile at the edge of the cultivation.\nWhile it is accepted by reputable Egyptologists that pyramids served as burials for kings, the exact details of the theology behind them remains unclear. One idea, popularized I believe by Dr. Mark Lehner, one of the foremost experts on Egyptian pyramids, is that pyramids served as "resurrection machines" providing all the necessary means for eternal life with the gods for the dead king.\nIn the late 5th Dynasty in the Pyramid of Unas at Saqqara, we have the first appearance of formal texts within the pyramid itself - the appropriately-named Pyramid Texts. These texts are somewhat esoteric and are essentially a collection of spells, stories, and guides relating to the Underworld. Initially these texts were limited to royalty. In succeeding pyramids, elements of the Pyramid Texts were included in the "Coffin Texts" of the First Intermediate and Middle Kingdom and in the "Book of the Dead" of the New Kingdom - texts available to a broad spectrum of society.\n\nPyramid construction continued in the Middle Kingdom - again limited to royalty, but not on the grand scale of the Old Kingdom. The last known royal pyramids located in Egypt are that of King Ahmose, founder of the 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom (ca. 1550 BCE) and the pyramid-cenotaph constructed for his grandmother, Queen Tetisheri. Both are located at Abydos.\n\nIn the New Kingdom, pyramids came to be part of tombs for reasonably wealthy private individuals - frequently added to the exterior portico area of rock-cut cliff tombs or appearing as architectural elements of brick constructed tombs in varous parts of Egypt.\n\nThe Napatan and Meroitic kingdoms in Nubia (modern Sudan) also used the pyramid for royal burials at sites such as El-Kurru and Nuri. While the Napatan kings ruled Egypt for a time during the 25th Dynasty and were buried in pyramids, those pyramids were located in Nubia proper.\n\nPyramid construction relied on highly skilled teams of workmen who were housed nearby the pyramid fields - in the Old Kingdom located in the general vicinity of the ancient capital Memphis at sites now knows as Giza, Saqqara, Meidum, and Dashur. A few pyramids in the Middle Kingdom were located near the Fayum, roughly Middle Egypt.\nIn addition to the full-time workmen, there was likely a seasonal labor requirement asked of the lower classes of Egyptian society - a sort of taxation, often referred to by the French term "corvee" labor. This is distinct from slavery. While the ancient Greek historian Herodotus (writing over a thousand years after the construction of the pyramids at Giza) reported that he
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well, the pyramids have drawings and herioglyphics that help tell about egypts history.Also, other artifacts like mummys and stuff like that also hold info on ancient egypt. hope i helped.