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The Pyramids
Some of the most interesting buildings in the world are the pyramids. The pyramids stand huge and silent, and in modem days, people look at them and wonder, "Who built them Why When What is inside How did they do it"
Thousands of years ago in Egypt, kings built the pyramids.
They used to build them as (1) . The kings thought the pyramids would help them find life after (2) , and join Ra in his journeys (3) the sky. They also wanted the world to remember them as important people. Some pyramids were found by thieves who in fact found their way into the pyramids and into most of the pharaoh’s tombs. The tombs were still full of treasure.
There are many pyramids along the (4) River. The (5) is the pyramid of Khufu. It is made of 2, 300, 000 huge (6) , most of them higher than a person. It is about 144 meters high. Inside the pyramid are the burial rooms for the king and queen and long passageways to these rooms. The rest of the pyramid is solid stone.
Workers usually built the pyramids when the flood began in (7) and they could not work on their farms. To build the pyramid of Khufu, 100, 000 men worked for twenty years.
We know there were wonderful treasures in the pyramids. Robbers went into the pyramids and took many of these treasures. Today some of the treasures are in museums, though.
How did the people of ancient days build the pyramids How did they carry and lift the huge stones Each stone fit so well and they didn’t have our modem machines! The ancient (8) in Egyptian tombs give us some ideas. The workers used (9) , levers and rollers to move stones. Besides the Egyptian pyramids, there are also great pyramids in (10) which were used for human sacrifice and different from Egyptian tombs in shape and other aspects.