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The secret to building the three pyramids and the genius of building and planning.

The secret to building the three pyramids.

By mahmoud hakeemPublished 2 years ago 5 min read

The construction of pyramids is one of the oldest unsolved puzzles in history, despite the attempt to solve them over and over again throughout history. Many scientists and scientists have been asked the same question about how to build pyramids.

Thus, the three great geese pyramids are one of the greatest pieces of human engineering and architecture, and after more than 4,500 years these monuments are still a puzzle that has not been solved to this day, and some of the books found by the ancient Egyptians can help us understand a little better about how to create such monuments and what is the secret of building pyramids.

These huge structures of limestone or milk bricks, the oldest made by man on our planet, have become the first cultural images to reflect Egyptian civilization. The Giza pyramids represent the long history of ancient Egypt. Their enormous size continues to impress millions of visitors every year, struggling to understand how three kings (a branch, Khvo and a bumper) can build such huge structures for a long time.

The three great pyramids were built during the fourth family of the ancient kingdom in ancient Egypt. The ancient kingdom existed from 2686 to 2181 B.C., the first of the three major ages in ancient Egypt's history. Archaeologists believe that the fourth family from 2613 to 2493 B.C. was called the Golden Age because of the size and quality of the pyramids built during this time in Giza.

The techniques used in the process of building Egyptian pyramids have puzzled many historians and scientists for countless years. Many controversial assumptions have been made regarding the construction of pyramids. However, the general view is based on the belief that large stones have been carved from quarries using copper fuses.

The shape of the labour force is also under considerable debate, as the pyramids are believed to have been built using slave labour. Another theory suggests that pyramids were built by tens of thousands of free skilled workers who worked for a wage, but it is certain that the workforce was highly organized and managed at the highest level through a structured and planned process consisting of three stages.

Stages of building pyramids

The workforce has relied on a specific process of building the pyramids that have been constructed ideally by following three important steps:

Choosing the perfect construction site.

Site preparation

Pick up the blocks.

Phase one... selection of the perfect construction site.

The first step in building the pyramid was to choose the appropriate location for construction as this should have been on the western side of the Nile where the sun sets, bearing in mind that the ancient Egyptians believed that wherever the sun sets, this would be the gate to the afterlife.

The pyramids also needed to be on high ground far from the flood threat of the Nile flood, yet it could not be too far from the Nile Bank because the river would be used to transport high-quality limestone blocks to the outer envelope on the other side of the Nile.

The chosen site would therefore be the highest point on the desert plateau that would prove to be a solid rock base capable of bearing the high weight of the pyramid without any risk of cracking, given that some of the largest pyramids weigh about 2.5 tons, so the site chosen to build each pyramid was considered also on the basis of the pyramid ' s distance to the King ' s residence where the King would need to examine the evolution of his burial chamber regularly.

Phase II Site processing

No plans were found to build pyramids at all, but the construction of pyramids was not random and the measurements used were quite accurate, as workers first had to prepare a solid foundation by removing bulk sands from the rock, and then the rock base had to be completely flat, the workers could have done so by building low mud walls all over the base.

They cut the canals with a grid pattern above the surface, fill the canals with water, determine the level to which the water will reach, and after the water is dried away, the visible rocks will be cut to the level indicated and any stone-filled lows to form a completely flat surface, and each side of the pyramid will have to face one of the main points.

But it's possible that the builders first founded the real North and then worked in other directions, and maybe they found the real North by seeing a particular star in the northern sky, and then they noticed the height and sunset of the star, and they identified its appearance and its disappearance in artificial horizons.

By checking the angle thus created, they would have a north line and a south line, and they had tools to draw the existing angles and then they were able to find the east and west, and then they had to make the base completely square and the four sides were exactly the same length and the same angles and all angles were perfect.

Stage three, raise the mass.

At times, rock bumps such as the heart of the pyramid were used to save the work, where rooms and internal corridors could have been built independently and the actual pyramid built around them, but some pyramid builders seemed to have changed their mind about the preferred location of the burial rooms, where the inner pyramid of limestone cut from the desert plateau was built and when the main structure was completed, the pyramid was also completed by wrapping it with blocks of finely cut limestone, and sometimes the granite was used for the lower cycles.

The stones used to build the pyramids were not small bricks, but the stones in the pyramid differ in size, yet the largest of them can be found in the king's room, and these particular stones differ from the ordinary limestone blocks and instead were made of granite.

The precise way to lift the pyramids is not yet known and the reels have not been invented until the Roman era. Yet the Greek historian, Hirodot, has said about the use of cranes to raise blocks from one level to another, and it has been suggested that workers working in construction teams use a slope to pull blocks to their positions, but as the size of the pyramid grows, the slope could have been raised to enable workers to reach the next level, but the main problem is that the slope would eventually be as huge as the pyramid itself and would have reached a huge distance in the desert.

Nor has any trace of such a structure been identified at any of the various sites of the pyramid. The idea here is that the slope would have turned around the pyramid and be dismantled at the completion of the pyramid, so the construction roads are still the subject of a hot debate and are still one of the greatest riddles of ancient human civilization.

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