What is the significance of the pyramid shape?How does it work?

Answer 1

The shape of Egyptian pyramids is thought to represent the primordial mound from which the Egyptians believed the earth was created. The shape is also thought to be representative of the descending rays of the sun, and most pyramids were faced with polished, highly reflective white limestone, in order to give them a brilliant appearance when viewed from a distance.

Answer 2

The pyramid is the best shape for any very tall structure made of large stone blocks using primitive technology and using a limited knowledge of architecture.

In other words, the pyramid-builders of Egypt, Iraq, and Central America were very clever to figure out that the tallest building they could make was a pyramid-shaped building.

But pyramids are not magical. And, the fact that pyramids were built in different parts of the world does not prove or even suggest that Egyptians, Mayans, Aztecs, or Sumerians were related or had any contact with one another.

If you want to know why pyramids were used, don't read a book on pyramidology or some book about the mystical properties of the pyramid, read a book on BASIC GEOMETRY. The real power of the pyramid comes from mathematics and the way it distributes weight.

If you can't build a cylinder -- and these early cultures couldn't -- then a four-sided structure is the most stable. And, if you want high walls, those walls will have to slant inward so that each "floor" of the building is smaller than the one beneath it. This provides maximum stability and essentially makes the structure as solid as an artificial mountain.

When you build something following those rules, you end up with a pyramid.

Pyramids were the tallest stone structures possible until Gothic architecture was invented in the Middle Ages. The Goths were a Germanic people and they developed a very clever way of stabilizing very tall stone structures. Only steel-frame structures improved on this. If the Egyptians had steel, they would have build giant box-shaped buildings like we do.

Other buildings were bigger and taller, but they included wood: Pagodas were very tall, but almost entirely made of wood. Greek temples "cheated" by having a wooden roof placed on top of those pretty marble columns.

Answer 3

The Egyptians believed that the Earth was once created from a great mound, and the shape of the pyramid is based on that. The fact that pyramids are so prevalent across the world is actually not that mysterious. One Egyptologist pointed out that if you wanted to create a monument in the ancient world, you didn't have steel supports or anything like that--the sturdiest structure would have been a pyramid. That's why the Great Pyramid is the only Wonder of the Ancient World is still standing--all the rest were knocked down by earthquakes. And notice that one of the earthquake-proof buildings in San Francisco is a pyramid.

As to the theories about keeping food fresher and all that, Dr. Zahi Hawass, the Director of Antiquities for Egypt and former head of the Giza Plateau, once weighed in on this. He put a piece of food on his desk, and another inside the Great Pyramid. There actually was a difference--the food inside the pyramid rotted faster, since his office is cooler!

Answer 4

Amazingly, at around the centre, the preservation of materials, even food, is amazing!
As for exterior, most likely it was used as a communication site.
Also, it was resembling mountain and mountains are eternal!
Further, the shape, special weight, dimensions and their ratios are presenting the knowledge of the Greeks of that time about Earth, our Solar system and the Universe!

Answer 5

Go to site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramids