Pyramids
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The of Egypt are the last remaining Wonder of the World. Even
in the days of Ancient Egypt when powerful pharaohs ruled over Egypt the
were considered a wonder. Today, the ruins of 35 still stand
near the Nile River in Egypt. These were built to protect the bodies
of Egyptian kings and other ....
Middle of paper
.... B.C. It exhibited a radical
new shape never before used, and it was so new the Egyptians used its
silhouettes as the hieroglyphic for “primeval mound”, the first piece of earth
to emerge from the soup of creation (Malek 90).
King Djoser's chief architect for his pyramid was Imhotep. It is
thought that King Djoser's stone tomb started out having the standard shape of a
mastaba. Then, as construction progressed, a concept evolved. Imhotep began to
place one flat-topped stone structure a ....
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