Pyramid was built based on astronomical observations. The Egyptians were experts in astronomy. They're very good at reading the movement of stars in the sky. The sky above the vast desert of endless orientation center of their lives. From the position and movement of their stars to predict the season, counting the best time to start planting wheat, predicting flooding and storms. From the observations the sky, they find that there is a black spot surrounded by a few stars. The stars are always changing positions, but the black dot that never changes. The Egyptians then consider the black spot is paradise. An eternal place. It never changed.
King Khufu wants to obtain immortality after his death. He wants to go to heaven he had seen in the sky. So he ordered to create a building that can deliver the body to go into eternity. By the architect and adviser to the royal expert, agreed that the building will conduct the King Khufu's body to heaven was shaped Pyramida. Pyramida form believed to be the symbol of life ...
Once, a native of Egypt Nakht who lived in a village, on the banks of the Nile. Every early summer, the envoy of King Khufu through the villages along the Nile, looking for a man strong and robust to be employed to build Pyramida. Nakht with his younger brother, deba, elected by Kaem-Ah, the envoy of the King. So in the year 2480 BC left for them to Giza. Previously, Nakht father and grandfather had been called to work to build Pyramida.
Nakht grandfather told me, he worked to make the stairs into the sky. How was tried, Nakht could never imagine, stairs to heaven is like. After a few days down the Nile, they arrived at Sakkara. In the place to see the ladder-shaped Nakht Pyramida, and then he understood what his grandfather had done. Pyramida at Sakkara was built about 60 years before the reign of King Khufu.
After sailing on the Nile for 11 days, and deba Nakht arrived in Giza, 10 miles south of Cairo. First they are placed in the quarry, where thousands of workers from the hill of stone cutting, shaping it into blocks square, which will be compiled into Pyramida. Stone blocks that weighed about 2.5 tons was taken to the building site, a distance of Pyramida 0.5 miles withdrawn manner. Deba Nakht and given the task of bringing water to moisten the surface of the dirt road that will pass the stone blocks. Because the ground at Giza in the form of clay, when wetted will be smooth and easy pull stone blocks.
Workers cutting stone in quarries at Giza
Pyramida Khufu built in 2480 BC. Required 6 million tons of stone to build this Pyramida, consisting of 2.5 million pieces of stone blocks, each weighing about 2.5 tons. In each period, 25,000 people work together. All very well coordinated. Every person has the workings of each, knowing his job goals. Each block of stone inscribed with identification numbers, so obviously in a position where the stone will be placed in Pyramida. Workers were divided into several groups, there was a group of stone cutters, stone writer's identity, and the stone pullers. They worked for 9 consecutive days, and rest on day 10.
No longer working as a water carrier, and deba Nakht moved to work at the construction site Pyramida. Workers at the site Pyramida have 'prestige' is higher than the quarry workers, because only selected workers who may enter the building site Pyramida. Yunu, led workers in Pyramida rate deba Nakht and high intelligence, so quickly given the task more important.
In Pyramida construction, the mason is the most important labor. They smooth the stone blocks that had been sent from the mine, make sure the size is just right. Pyramida at the construction site, and deba Nakht assigned place stone blocks in a prescribed location. The stones were pulled up through the specially constructed ramps at the side Pyramida. This job is very interesting heavy rock. A stone blocks weighing 2.5 tons was withdrawn by 20 to 30 people. To put in the position of Pyramida, use the pulley placed on a large wooden triangle. At one point, because there are workers who inadvertently, this wooden triangle collapses. Deba beneath a wooden beam that hit big and heavy. He died, 5 years after working in Pyramida ...
Deba death makes Nakht devastated. Five years working in Pyramida which in essence is a tomb, he never thought about death. Deba death reminds Nakht that all the hard work was done extraordinary for one person, namely the king. All the people beholden to the king, then make sacrifices for the king is an honor.
However, what really pushed them voluntarily Pyramida building?
King Khufu 'Pyramida development review which will be a grave
The writings contained in the Pyramida talked about the long journey of King, who is described as a hawk, with the help of a hurricane, rain, and thunder. Text in the Pyramida always describe the end of the journey the king, which is to be among the never perish. King will achieve immortality, as well as every person who worked to make the road to the eternal king.
Ten years after the beginning of large Pyramida construction, granite came from Aswan, a distance of mine 500 miles from Giza. The amount of this granite 9 fruits, each weighing 50 tons. Granite stones will be used as top cover Pyramida. Because of its weight, it takes 200 people to draw a block of stone to the top. At the top of the top third of Pyramida, the stone can no longer be drawn through the gentle slope next to the Pyramida, which made the spiral-shaped path around the top stick Pyramida. Nakht who have become senior workers, believed by Hermiunu, Pyramida development architect who also is a cousin of the king, to preside over placement of the stones is important. Nakht asked all the stone marked the center with a line of red ocher. Then by using plummet, he observed that the position of the red ocher line exactly coincides with a pole that is used to mark the center point Pyramida. Thus, all the blocks of stone are on a very precise position, not one inch. Error cause stone positions put the emphasis shifted Pyramida, and Pyramida will collapse.
Installation of the stone peak Pyramida
Khufu originally Pyramida high 146 yards, but because of erosion over thousands of years, now living 136 meters high. Until the year 1889 when the Eiffel Tower (324 meters) was built in Paris, Pyramida is the tallest building in the world.
In the Pyramida there are three rooms. The first room was in the basement. The second room was on top, and the third room on top. On top of this room King Khufu's body will be placed, just below the granite rocks that cover the top Pyramida Nakht and placed by his friends.
In the year 2463 BC King Khufu out of the palace to see the tomb that would make him immortal. With ditandu by kings guards, he walked the same path, which disusurinya 17 years ago, at the beginning of development Pyramida.
Early days in the spring of 2457 BC King Khufu's death. In a coffin made of cedar wood, his body was carried through the river Nile to the temple near the pyramid. Inside the box was saved well palace of gold and wealth associated with Tutankhamun. From the temple on the banks of the Nile, first coffin was taken to the basement of the pyramid. After that just brought to the room on top of it, and then placed in a room at the top of the tomb of King Khufu. On the north wall of this top of the room, there is a hole through the pyramid, where the holes can be seen a black dot in the sky surrounded by stars. Black dot which is believed by King Khufu and the Egyptian people as the eternal paradise.
King Khufu and the Egyptian people have found their paradise, and build a pyramid as a way to get there ....
