How did this pyramid and the Sphinx come about?
It turns out that there was a religious superstition in ancient Egypt: "After death, as long as the body is preserved, his soul will be resurrected when it enters the underworld." Accustomed to luxury, the emperor hoped to enjoy wealth forever after his death, so he ordered the corpse to be embalmed, filled with spices and preserved for a long time, called "mummy". Pyramids are tombs for mummies. The pyramid is a square cone-shaped building. Because its shape is very similar to the word "gold" in China, the ancients in China called it a "pyramid".
More than 70 ancient Egyptian pyramids, large and small, are located in a desert10 ~ 20km south of Cairo. Up to now, there are three pyramids in Giza, southwest of Cairo, which were built by three generations of the fourth dynasty, namely King Khufu, King Kabra and King Monkoala. Among them, King Khufu is the largest, known as the Great Pyramid, with a history of four or five thousand years, and it is the peak of the pyramid.
It is said that Khufu was the founder of the Fourth Dynasty (2680-2560 BC) and the son of King Snevro. When he was in office, in order to continue to enjoy prosperity in another world, he recruited 300,000 people, with 6,543.8+10,000 people in each batch. It took 30 years to finally build the Great Pyramid Mausoleum with huge scale and complicated structure.
The volume of this pyramid is about 250 cubic meters. The bottom is square, each side is more than 230 meters long and the height is 146. 5 meters (now 138 meters high due to thousands of years of weathering and denudation), covering an area of 52,900 square meters, is made of 2.3 million stones, each stone generally weighs 25 tons, and the largest one weighs 30 tons. Some people estimate that if these stones are cut open and paved with a foot-wide road, they can circle the earth!
What's even more amazing is that all the stones are piled up by their own weight without any mortar bonding. Moreover, the four inclined planes of the tower are all east, west, north and south, and the inclination angle is 5 1.52 minutes. The height error between the southeast corner and the northwest corner of the tower is only 1.27 cm, which shows the precision of construction. (Hainan Tianjiao Model Brokerage Performance-Tianjiao Literature www.tj-model.com)
At the north pole of the pyramid, there is a population at 17 meters above the ground, which can reach the inside of the pyramid through three passages. At the top is the Pharaoh's cemetery, with a vertical distance of 42.28 meters from the ground. Tomb length10.43m, height 5.82m.. There is only a red granite sarcophagus in such a big space. In the middle is the queen's tomb, which is roughly the same as the Pharaoh's tomb. The bottom one is called the auxiliary tomb. It is said to be the soul lounge of Pharaoh and queen. There are several holes in Pharaoh's tomb that extend to the surface of the pyramid. In addition to ventilation, it also acts as a "free flowing" population for the "soul" of the elderly and the queen. What a rich imagination this is.