why are there no hieroglyphics in the great pyramid?
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There are a few hieroglyphs in the relieving chamber left by the workmen who built the structure. They identify the gang of workers and the name of the pharaoh for whom the pyramid was built. ... Didn't the ancient Egyptians create any record of how they built the pyramids?
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Elephants had gone extinct in Egypt by about 2600 B.C. or so, plus or minus a few centuries. So for a very long time there was no native elephants for Egyptians to use. It is theoretically possible that the Pharaohs might have imported some for military purposes, but I'm not really seeing any sign of this.
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The pyramid has a base length of 215.5 m (706 ft) and rises up to a height of 136.4 metres (448 ft). It is made of limestone blocks weighing more than 2 tons each. The slope of the pyramid rises at a 53° 13' angle, steeper than its neighbor, the Pyramid of Khufu, which has an angle of 51°50'24".
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Compared to the Egyptian pyramids at Giza, Mayan pyramids are mostly smaller, but steeper and more ornate. They were built of stone blocks held together with lime mortar. Some were covered with plaster and painted. ... The entrance to the pyramid is at the very top, not the bottom.
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The ancient Egyptians used the distinctive script known today as hieroglyphs (Greek for "sacred words") for almost 4,000 years. Hieroglyphs were written on papyrus, carved in stone on tomb and temple walls, and used to decorate many objects of cultic and daily life use.
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No mummies have been found in the egyption pyramids, because the pyramids were power plants not tombs.
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Its purpose is to get the temple closer to the heavens, and provide access from the ground to it via steps. The Mesopotamians believed that these pyramids temples connected heaven and earth. In fact, the ziggurat at Babylon was known as Etemenankia or "House of the Platform between Heaven and Earth".
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The Step Pyramid of Djoser is the oldest pyramid in Egypt. It was built about 4,700 years ago. Constructed at Saqqara about 4,700 years ago, the Step Pyramid of Djoser was the first pyramid the Egyptians built.
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Mysterious hieroglyphs written in red paint on the floor of a hidden chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza are just numbers, according to a mathematical analysis of the 4,500-year-old mausoleum.
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In other words, the theory is that individuals' most basic needs must be met before they become motivated to achieve higher level needs. However, it has been pointed out that, although the ideas behind the hierarchy are Maslow's, the pyramid itself does not exist anywhere in Maslow's original work.
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How were cuneiform and hieroglyphic writing similar? different? Both used symbols for ideas and sounds. Cuneiform was written on clay, hieroglyphics were written on clay and stone.
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The pyramid can have up to 4 levels (with each successive level having more blocks) and must be constructed out of iron, gold, diamond, or emerald. Not ore, but solid blocks constructed out of 9 ingots or gems, respectively.
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Both of them were situated in Africa. The former in the north and the Kush in the south. They both lived along the river Nile. They both built pyramids, but the Kushian ones were very steep.
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Speculation swirls anew that within Egypt's Great Pyramid of Khufu there lies a hidden tomb, possibly holding the pharaoh himself, sealed there for thousands of years. The discovery of so-called thermal anomalies by a team scanning the pyramid suggests an as-yet-unidentified open space that could be evidence of a tomb.
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The Pyramids, as they are referred to by the Vanguard, are a massive fleet of Darkness-aligned tetrahedral entities. They are the ancient enemy of the Traveler, and were responsible for the Collapse on Earth.
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They aren't related in any way whatsoever. Nefertiti was a real Egyptian, with much physical evidence supporting her existence, while the consensus among Biblical scholars seems to be that Moses didn't exist at all, there being such a total lack of any evidence for him outside of scripture.