The Egyptian pyramids

A community portal about The Egyptian pyramids with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Pyramids of Egypt, among the largest constructions ever built by man, , constitute one of the most potent and enduring symbols of Ancient Egyptian civilization. It is generally accepted by most archaeologists that they were constructed as burial monuments associated with royal solar and stellar cults, and most were built during the Old and Middle Kingdom periods .

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Khufu Mummy

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The almost famous Egyptian pyramids to be established are the Great Pyramids of Giza, placed in the outskirts of contemporary Cairo. There are up 100 Egyptian pyramids of varying sizes, and over 50 more overmuch in neighboring Sudan. However, the three Great Pyramids of Giza earn their renown by being the biggest of these. Zahi Hawass is doing it once more, new robot will be placed in to the great pyramid of Khufu to break what is set the mystery shots. Maybe, maybe there is a opportunity that there is another burying chamber. Perhaps Khufu's mummy is settled in the pyramid while he is ... Read Full Story

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Khufu Mummy

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Khufu Tomb

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Discovery of secret doors suggests possibility of hidden treasures. For years scholars have considered that the pyramid of King Khufu , greatest of the three "great" pyramids at Giza city, had been blank in antiquity and everything of measure, including the body of King Khufu himself, had been transferred. Nowadays, Zahi Hawass, the secretary general of Egypt's Greatest Council of Antiquities and director of the Giza Plateau , suspects that might not be the case. "I really in person believe," he recently told a sold-out lecture hall in the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia State, "that the secret chamber ... Read Full Story

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Sphinx & Great Pyramid -How Old Are They?

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The erosion of the Sphinx & its surrounding trench show the result of regular heavy rains or perhaps flooding, not wind, not sand. Egypt has not had that kind of climate since 7,000BC & with the possibility of the Sphinx being buried in sand for much of the time (as it was till recently excavated) it may very well be many thousands of years older than that. From a detailed study of the highly-weathered limestone rock and the enclosure in which it sits, Robert Schoch, a geologist from Boston University, also concluded that the Sphinx was exposed to prolonged heavy rainfall. At some point ... Read Full Story

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