... This would have needed great arrangement of organization and labor in the way of bookkeeping and record keeping. The pyramids were manufactured out of stone blocks, each weighing up no less than 2 tons. There are speculations suggesting that various men together moved each block over an incline that ... encompassed the structure as it rose, or that they moved each stone up long ramps that got higher and longer as the pyramid got higher. It is believed that the shape of the pyramid was built ... base, up until they meet at an apex situated perpendicularly over the core of its base where ...

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... large-scale technology was the first pyramid built for King Zoser in 2750BC. It was this feat that heralded the short age of the gigantic stone pyramids of ancient Egypt. The superstructure of the pyramid was made of small limestone blocks and desert clay. The original structure was an underground burial ... tomb chamber was dug. After the third stage was finished, the process to make it a true step pyramid had begun. Over 200,000 tons of stone was used to make the additional two tiers that went above the existing two-tiered structure (Lepre, J.P. The Egyptian Pyramids). An additional tw...

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... he was an architect. Earlier Pharaohs had already built enormous burial arrangements and it was Imhotep who designed the Step Pyramid, the first building in history made entirely of dressed stone. Built west of the administrative capital of Memphis, the Step Pyramid towers over the desert to a height of two hundred feet. Its design was based on the older form of ... , so too did their priests. But no temple was so well endowed as that of Amon at Thebes. Thebes was not just the capital of Egypt but it was the sacred place to Amon, the creator god. He was more than a local god, he came int...

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