Egyptian Pyramids Research Paper

he Great Pyramids of Giza have had a great mystery surrounding them since we first discovered them after the Egyptians had long been gone from there. People have theorized how the great pyramids were built. Some have suggested that they must have been constructed by extraterrestrials, while others believe the Egyptians possessed a technology that has been lost through the ages. Most likely lost in the Library of Alexandria along with the rest of histories greatest secrets including how they get the caramel in the Caramilk bars.
Since there is no hard evidence suggesting that extraterrestrial beings do exist we have to presume that humans even in one of the earliest stages of life built these monumental structures using nothing but some mad
made tools and elbow grease.
The Egyptian people used a step system to build the pyramids. Jean-Pierre Houdin an Egyptologist believes workers used an outer ramp to build the first 43 metres (47 yards) then constructed an inner ramp to carry stones to the apex of the 137m pyramid1.

Mr. Houdin’s inner ramp system diagram
This theory is more logical than the other ramp theories because it is the most cost effective and uses up the least space. Mr. Houdin said the pyramids could have been built by 4,000 people using his technique instead of 100,000, as postulated by other theorists2. This is because it takes up much less space than one large ramp wrapping all around the edges, or going straight up to one side. Large ramp theory, takes up a lot of space
There has been little evidence found around these structures indicating that there was any reminisce of a ramp. You would think a structure so large would leave some sort of evidence behind from their clean up. In many old cities or towns all throughout this planet we still see evidence of structures once being there even when Mother Nature has being taking it back for years.

Foundations of a small town in Israel
Never underestimate the ingenuity of man. We are today so used to using machinery to carry out virtually all our major construction work that we sometimes forget that machinery, in terms of historical events, is a very new development, it’s only been around a couple of hundred years or so. Mankind managed very well without it for many thousands of years. We have long forgotten the techniques that were used in the building of the pyramids, but this doesn't mean that we are unable to work out how it was done.

The work force was not one of slaves, the Egyptians didn't need slaves. The Nile supplied a very fertile land where farming was relatively easy and food abundant. This civilisation had time on its hands, no wonder they were such great mathematicians, astronomers and architects. The work force was primarily made up of farmers, recruited nationwide for a period ranging from a few months to a few years, and they served their time for their king, much like serving National Service today in the armed forces.

Illustration showing Egyptian labourers pulling a stone block
Tombs were found just outside of the Pyramids, "These tombs were built beside the king's pyramid, which indicates these people were not by any means slaves," Zahi Hawass, the chief archaeologist heading the Egyptian excavation team, said in a statement. "If they were slaves, they would not have been able to build their tombs beside their king's."3
The thousands of men who built the last remaining wonder of the ancient world ate meat regularly, worked in three months shifts and were given the honor of being buried in mud brick tombs within the shadow of the sacred pyramids they worked on.
The newly discovered tombs date to Egypt's 4th Dynasty (2575 B.C. to 2467 B.C.) when the great pyramids were built, according to the head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass.
Graves of the pyramid builders were first discovered in the area in 1990, he said, and discoveries such as these show that the workers were paid laborers, rather than the slaves of popular imagination4.

What the Egyptian workers tombs may have looked like
The Egyptians were said to be a mathematically intelligent race so there is no doubt they could have engineered a way to make a perfect angle such as this technique called the 3-4-5 method

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Measuring out two pieces of string or board other item that can be pulled straight and that measure 3 and 4 feet long. 2. These will be the two "short" legs of your right triangle, so lay them down in as close to a right angle as you can get by just eyeballing them. 3. Take a third piece of string or board or what have you, and measure it to 5 feet long. 4. Make this last piece the "long" leg of the triangle. Once you get everything arranged neatly, if your legs are 3, 4, and 5 feet long, you'll have a right angle.

Demonstration of the 3-4-5 measurement system
This works because of the Pythagorean Theorem, which states that the sum of the square of the two short legs equals the square of the long leg (the hypotenuse). In other words, (3x3) + (4x4) = (5x5). Sure enough, 9 + 16 does equal 25.4 This is just one way of many that they could have used to ensure the Pyramids had that perfect
angle.

The Great Sphinx is to the northeast of Khafre's (Chephren) Valley Temple. Where it sits was once a quarry. We believe that Khafre's workers shaped the stone into the lion and gave it their king's face over 4,500 years ago. Khafre's name was also mentioned on the Dream Stele, which sits between the paws of the great beast. However, no one is completely certain that it is in fact the face of Khafre, though indeed that is the preponderance of thought6.

The good, hard limestone that lay around the Sphinx's head was probably all quarried for blocks to build the pyramids.
The limestone removed to shape the body of the beast was evidently employed to build the two temples to the east of the Sphinx, on a terrace lower than the floor of the Sphinx enclosure, one almost directly in front of the paws, the other to the south of the first one7.
There are some who argue that the Sphinx pre-dates the pyramids and that there was a solar cult acting in the Giza area before Giza became the necropolis of the fourth dynasty kings. It has been proposed that the Sphinx, the Sphinx temple, the mortuary temple and the valley temple of Khafre were built at the same time and that their attribution to Khafre is erroneous. Referring to the Inventory Stela discovered by Mariette and the Dream Stele some have suggested that the Sphinx was in fact renovated during the Old Kingdom. However, this view is unpopular amongst Egyptologists and some who once proposed it now reject the
theory8.
There is many theories and ideas about how the pyramids and sphinx were made stretching from extraterrestrials to the Egyptians floating the blocks in. Man is the only race on this earth capable of making such a great monument, and we should not underestimate the intelligence of man in its early form.