Why were the pyramids built???? (Egypt)?

Question

Why were the pyramids built???? (Egypt)

And how were the Pyramids connected to the Egyptian view of the afterlife????

Answer 1

Pyramids were built in Ancient Egypt as tombs, or burial places, for Egyptian pharaohs, or kings. The Ancient Egyptians believed in an afterlife, so it was very important to them to protect the bodies of their pharaohs. In order to keep the body of the pharaoh safe, the insides of the pyramids were like mazes with secret doors and dead-end passages. The pharaoh would be near the bottom or even underground. Other rooms contained things like jewelry and furniture that the pharaoh might want in his next life.

Answer 2

The pyramids were built as tombs for the Pharaohs. The Egyptians did not always use pyramids as the burial places for their kings, prior to the pyramids they carved tombs into rock. The pyramid shape is said to be fashioned to be like the sacred stone called the benben. the name for this symbolised the rays of the sun. It was said that the Pharaohs reached the heavens via sunbeams

The pyramids were filled with all the things that the Pharaoh would need in the afterlife.

Answer 3

Jesus said a house divided will not stand. Any builder of dwellings know that the weight must be distributed evenly on the foundation stones, or beams, or bricks. I believe the pyramids are not just a testimony to the poor slaves who endured the horrible task of building them, nor are they a monument to the dead and their essence purified rising to the pinnacle of the sun a rebirth, but a monument to progress to hope and to pure mathematics and logic.
That every level of the pyramid and its stones the weights and measures must be fairly and evenly distributed a little more and a little less . If the pyramid is overturned and the pinhead at the top is at the bottom , the whole thing collapses. So it is in nature and so it is in social and economic institutions, and for how long has the truth about the destructive nature of our nature and this answer been standing there like a monument to building healthy societies. Healthy family groups. Healthy environmental practises. And a monument to the abuse of sacrifice and those who cannot forgive our mistakes--So the dust bowl, the haves and the have-nots of our sexist, elitist economic past- the dirty thirties.

Answer 4

The pyramids were built as a tomb to a certain pharoah. the pharoah started building the pyramid as soon as he was made pharoah in the hope that he would finish it before his death. all tombs except that of tutenkharmen have been robbed. they started building in the valley of the kings after the pyramids.

a pyramid has 4 sides and each of the sides is slightly off parralel (probley parralel when it was built) to the true north, south, east and west. the pharoah is thought to have decended up to the heavens using the pyramid.

Answer 5

The first pyramid was built so the Pharoah could always be remembered, I think. I heard that somewhere. And I think most of the pyramids have these slot thingies so the spirit is in direct alignment with the moon.. or was it the sun? so they could travel to the afterlife.

Answer 6

Pharoah accepted by the people at those time are same level as GOD.So,when they died the egyptian have to send them back to the heaven.So,they study the structure how to send them for thier journey back.Because of Heaven is at the sky,so they chose pyramid because it is pointing up.

Answer 7

pyramids were built for burial. Egyptians believe that there is life after death. Great tombs were built for great rulers.(kings,pharoes,ect.)

Answer 8

While it is accepted by reputable Egyptologists that pyramids served as burials for kings, the exact details of the theology behind them remains unclear. One idea, popularized I believe by Dr. Mark Lehner, one of the foremost experts on Egyptian pyramids, is that pyramids served as "resurrection machines" providing all the necessary means for eternal life with the gods for the dead king.
In the late 5th Dynasty in the Pyramid of Unas at Saqqara, we have the first appearance of formal texts within the pyramid itself - the appropriately-named Pyramid Texts. These texts are somewhat esoteric and are essentially a collection of spells, stories, and guides relating to the Underworld. Initially these texts were limited to royalty. In succeeding pyramids, elements of the Pyramid Texts were included in the "Coffin Texts" of the First Intermediate and Middle Kingdom and in the "Book of the Dead" of the New Kingdom - texts available to a broad spectrum of society.



The pyramid is thought to have developed out of the mastaba tomb. Mastaba is an Arabic word, meaning bench, which was applied to the flat-topped, slope sided superstructures of tombs. The pyramid is also thought to be associated with solar worship and the "ben-ben" stone which played a major role in sun worship and was vaguely pyramid shaped.

In the 3rd Dynasty, several mastabas were stacked forming the Step Pyramid of King Djoser. By the 4th Dynasty in the reign of Snefru attempts at building a true pyramid were underway. The pyramids of the 4th and 5th Dynasties, including those at Giza, essentially reflect the further refinement of the pyramid, the chambers within it, and the associated temple complexes. Eventually the standard style was an orientation of east to west (significant in Egyptian religion), with a pyramid temple, located directly on the east side of the pyramid, and a causeway leading to the "valley temple" located near the Nile at the edge of the cultivation.

Pyramid construction continued in the Middle Kingdom - again limited to royalty, but not on the grand scale of the Old Kingdom. The last known royal pyramids located in Egypt are that of King Ahmose, founder of the 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom (ca. 1550 BCE) and the pyramid-cenotaph constructed for his grandmother, Queen Tetisheri. Both are located at Abydos.

In the New Kingdom, pyramids came to be part of tombs for reasonably wealthy private individuals - frequently added to the exterior portico area of rock-cut cliff tombs or appearing as architectural elements of brick constructed tombs in varous parts of Egypt.

The Napatan and Meroitic kingdoms in Nubia (modern Sudan) also used the pyramid for royal burials at sites such as El-Kurru and Nuri. While the Napatan kings ruled Egypt for a time during the 25th Dynasty and were buried in pyramids, those pyramids were located in Nubia proper.
Pyramid Construction:

Pyramid construction relied on highly skilled teams of workmen who were housed nearby the pyramid fields - in the Old Kingdom located in the general vicinity of the ancient capital Memphis at sites now knows as Giza, Saqqara, Meidum, and Dashur. A few pyramids in the Middle Kingdom were located near the Fayum, roughly Middle Egypt.
In addition to the full-time workmen, there was likely a seasonal labor requirement asked of the lower classes of Egyptian society - a sort of taxation, often referred to by the French term "corvee" labor. This is distinct from slavery. While the ancient Greek historian Herodotus (writing over a thousand years after the construction of the pyramids at Giza) reported that he was told the pyramids at Giza were constructed by slaves, Herodotus was wrong about any number of things in his reports and may not even have visited Egypt in person, so he is usually not taken as a realiable source.

The book by Mark Lehner mentioned below contains an excellent overview of the survey and alignment methodology used by the Egyptians to construct their pyramids. There is also a superb overview of the construction techniques and tools. Lehner also recounts the NOVA experiment in building a pyramid using the same labor and tools and the ancient Egyptians.

For more information see, search for information at:
http://en.wikipedia.org
http://www.touregypt.net

Or search Google for "Mark Lehner"
I strongly discourage relying on sources that do not have an obvious relationship to a well-respected scholar, are not related to an educational establishment of some kind, and/or are not subjected to peer review of some kind.

I also recommend looking at the book "The Complete Pyramids" by Mark Lehner.

Answer 9

You mean you don't know that history already? Where have you been? You can read all about it anywhere these days (library, Internet, encyclopedia, school). Instead of asking this question get off the couch and start reference searching. You might learn something valuable.

As I remembered we studied this stuff in public school. Didn't your history teacher teach you this stuff?

Answer 10

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