What Is Not True About The Great Pyramids At Gizeh
Camila Farah
However despite being one of the largest pyramids in the world there are even larger pyramids than that of pharaoh khufu.
Interestingly the outer mantle was composed of 144 000 casing stones all of them highly polished and flat to an accuracy of 1 100th of an inch about 100 inches thick and weighing approx. This limestone was so polished that the pyramids actually reflected the sun s rays. Its also not the oldest although it is the largest and tallest. Egyptologists believe that the pyramid was built as a tomb for the fourth.
But around one hundred years before the pyramid attributed to khufu was built a pharaoh called djoser commissioned the first pyramid in egypt. The great pyramid of giza was such a masterplan of ancient construction that for 3 800 years the great pyramid remained the tallest structure erected on the surface of the planet. In fact according to on the go tours all the pyramids of giza including the great pyramid were once white. The questions that still remains is how ancient man was able to quarry transport and mount these incredible rocks to form the great pyramid of giza.
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