Jessica's Homework Blog: The Pyrimads of Giza

The Pyramids of Giza
The Pyramids of Giza are one of the most beautiful sites in the world so much so that they were considered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. The pyramids stood so clean, crisp, and smooth in their day. They originally stood pure white and their outside layer was made of limestone. The pyramids would have shown to the world how powerful and strong Egypt was.They took years of hard work from many workers and are so big that we are still trying to uncover all of their secrets and mysteries to this day. (Hafner)

This great site is located just about fifteen miles southwest of the Nile river. Which is a great water source and would have helped the building process a lot. The only civilisation that lasted in Egypt during that day was along the Nile because the only vegetation and water in the whole desert was along the Nile.

The purpose of the pyramids was to hold the most powerful Pharaohs. The three pyramids at Giza hold Khufu, who is in largest of the three pyramids. Khafre is in the middle of the three and Menkaure who is in the smallest pyramid. (Hafner)

W e are now uncovering a burial that was for the workers that worked on the pyramids. A Great mystery that everyone asks is who were the pyramids made by. We known that they were made for the Egyptian Pharaohs, but not by whom some think that they were created by the Egyptians as well. Others think that they were made by the Israelites when they were in custody of the Egyptians before Moses with Gods help set them free. In the first chapter of Exodus in the Bible we see that after Joesph was in Egypt. He and his family lived there and populated and as the Pharaohs changed over reigns they forgot how Joesph helped them and soon the Pharaoh treated the Israelites as slaves and it is presented that they built the pyramids. However there is no way of knowing exactly who created them.(Bible)

The estamate is that the pyramid of Khufu would have taken fourteen years with 20-30,000 workers working on it. You could not even imagine how hot it would be and what conditions they would have to work under. But Even still their precition to their cuts and edges are practically perfect. It is amazing to see what the builers created even in the ancient days with not as many presise tools.

"the living people who made King Khufu's Pyramid, left their marks upon the Plateau and then simply disappeared." (Romer 102)

The reason to why the pyramids were built was because the Egyptians thought that the after life was of high importance and where your body went when you died accounted for how good your after life would be also. This is why the Pharaohs and other Egyptians would ask to have their greatest things put with them when they died. (Romer)

These great sites stand tall and big they are magnificent and take the breaths of all that see them. The pyramids give great insight to the ancient times and the Egyptians worldview. The hold great history and have lasted through many historical events.