The Great Pyramid by: Shabaz Khimani

General description:
The Great Pyramids in Egypt are considered to be the seventh wonder of the world, which are located near the Giza. The pyramids are the world’s largest pyramid structure in the world. It is built out of 2.3 million sand colored stones, which pile up to reach the great heights of 450 feet high. This massive structure has an incredible large base which concludes to be 756 wide from one corner of the pyramid to another. This great structure was built in the range of 4,200 years and 4,700 years ago, when the Egyptian empire ruled most of the continent of Asia.

Architectural Design:
The tools used to create the pyramids, were very small, and not every inventive compared to our time. But the precision of the countless of 1000’s of salves who were involved in building the pyramids was hard to believe. According to http://www.unmuseum.org/kpyramid.htm there was only around an 8 inch difference between the 4 sides of the pyramids. The pyramids involved seven main components; the King’s chamber, Queen’s chamber, Greaves shaft, ascending passages, descending passages, the Grand gallery, and the Vents. The Great pyramids have been used by many teachers of mathematics and science to show the great balance used by the Egyptian architects The Golden Ratio was created by the design and the intense geometry used to create this massive structure. The great design of the pyramids has allowed the structure to have lasted the wear and tear of the powerful grainy winds of the Egyptian desert, for over 4,500 years.

Harmony with Nature:
The great pyramids have a special quality, of camouflage, with the 2,300,000 stones used to create the pyramids, composed of fragments of the signature yellow sands of the Egyptian deserts. With the pyramids being made up of the same material as its surrounding, the instant effects to the environment has been minimized. The pyramids, being considered as the seventh wonder of the world, not for only the great geometry and design of the pyramids, but they also because the pyramids bring a majestic ambiance

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Symbolism and Sacred Objects:
Many people believed that the great pyramids were created to be a tomb for the great pharaoh, but that would be the wrong case. According to http://www.eridu.co.uk/Author/egypt/pyramid.html , “According to Egyptologists, the true pyramid (i.e. the smooth-sided pyramid) was a solar symbol, its shape signifying the rays of the Sun falling to the earth. In keeping with this theory, the pyramid’s capstone, benbenet, is held to have been a solar icon or ‘Sun-stone’.” It was also considered to be a place where the pharaohs were believed to have been able to communicate with the Gods. This brings us to the last category.

How it is used by Worshippers:
‘Pyramid of Secrets’ was believed to be a place the high royalty was able to communicate with the ideal gods. With the shape of the pyramids, looked as a place where the earth could connect with the sky and the sun. This illusion helped strengthen the believe of the pathway to the gods went through the Great Pyramids.

Sources:
http://www.unmuseum.org/kpyramid2.htm
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/unit2/unit2.html
http://www.eridu.co.uk/Author/egypt/pyramid.html