How the Pyramids at Giza were built?

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Some of the most recognisable and enigmatic buildings in Egypt tours and the entire globe are the Pyramids in Giza. For years, these prehistoric marvels have baffled researchers, who have wondered how the ancient Egyptians managed to build the gigantic Pyramids and Sphinx with such accuracy.

How were the Pyramids built?

How were the Pyramids built

During the Old and Middle Kingdom eras, the pyramids were constructed as tombs for the pharaohs and their consorts. The Great Pyramid of Giza, often referred to as the Pyramid of Khufu, is the greatest of the three pyramids and is said to have been constructed during the reign of Pharaoh Khufu, who governed Egypt from from 2589 to 2566 BCE. Include it in your itinerary for Cairo day excursions. When your Egypt day excursions come to a conclusion, you can request to go inside the Pyramid to visit the King's room.

The pyramids were constructed by a massive labour force, which is claimed to have comprised both skilled and unskilled labour. Our tour guide will outline all the urban legends surrounding the building of the Pyramids as part of your Egypt vacation packages. Teams of workers, each responsible for a specific task, such as transporting stone blocks from the quarry to the building site or erecting the pyramid, were likely formed from the labour force. Very likely, the workers received some form of payment in addition to receiving food and other necessities.

Various methods were used to construct the pyramids. While on your Egypt luxury tours, you can see that the outside was covered in a coating of fine white limestone, when you visit the Giza Pyramids, you will realise that the core of the pyramid was built using limestone blocks. The limestone stones were brought to the building site using a mixture of ramps and rollers after being extracted from local quarries. Due to its fascinating activity and extensive history, the Giza Pyramids are a location worth visiting.

Pyramid construction methods used in ancient Egypt

Pyramid construction methods used in ancient Egypt

Engineering and mathematics were also used in the construction of the pyramids. You will hear about all of these stories from our tour guide in Egypt budget tours as she narrates how the ancient Egyptians employed a system of pulleys, levers, and ramps to bring the large stone blocks into place. They also employed a method known as "corbelling" to produce the pyramid's distinctive high inclination. Using this method, the pyramid was constructed in horizontal levels, each one significantly smaller than the one underneath it, until it reached its full height.

The Great Pyramid of Giza, which you will see today on the Giza Pyramids Tour, is said to have taken around 20 years to build and employed some 100,000 workers. The result is a piece of architecture that is still standing and continues to astound tourists from all over the world.

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