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Thursday 19 October 2017

Pyramids of Giza


Questions

  1. Who were the three largest pyramids of Giza built for? Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure.
  2. What is known about the Pyramid of Khufu? has many statues in and around it.
  3. What was found in all three pyramids? The Pyramid of Khufu took almost 20 years to build.
  4. Why did the pyramids have secret passageways? So that the robber could not get their gold.
  5. What was thought would happen to those who entered the tombs? They get cursed.
  6. What happened to feed this belief and did it prove the belief to be true? one of the people involved in the search died. This led more people to believe that the curse was real
  7. Why would only pharaohs had pyramids built for themselves as tombs? Nov 6, 2015 - And while we'll let other sites deal with the comments themselves, we wanted Pyramids aren't hollow They're incredibly solid and usually only have found funerary text inscriptions inside pyramid chambers built There's evidence of burial inside the pyramids: Pyramids were definitely used as tombs.  
  8. Why would a pyramid take 20 years to build? around 2550 BC. Also known as the Great Pyramid, it is made of more than one million limestone blocks.
  9. What would we do today to stop grave robbers stealing treasure? The pyramids also had secret passageways to trap robbers who tried to steal the burial treasure. Eventually, the ancient Egyptians stopped building large pyramids because they were easy targets for robbers.
  10. Why are people today still fascinated by the ancient Egyptians? Because it has so many things that no one has ever seen before.

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