Brief on the pyramids of Egypt

View from space of the Pyramids

Egypt has now nearly 104 Pyramid spread between Giza and even Nubia almost and is known as the pyramids were tombs for some pharaohs of Egypt, but why they chose the pyramid specifically for the construction of cemeteries and how they have evolved the idea of ​​building the pyramid and other questions which need us Introduction to clarify these questions.



Being the Nile River in Egypt is also known from the south to the north and Egypt is divided into eastern and western halves and has lived the ancient Egyptians on the banks of the Nile River and began to establish their civilization on the side and begins the history of Egypt from the year 3200 BC and is the beginning of almost know writing to the Egyptians, either before it is called prehistoric and since early times I think the ancient Egyptian in the idea of ​​resurrection after death and life again in another world and came this idea of ​​observation of nature and what is repeated, such as the sun and flooding of the Nile which is repeated every year at the same date and planting, which grow again after harvest. And I think the ancient Egyptian Middle represents life while the West means death as generate the sun every day of the Middle and die in the west, from this point, we find that all the pyramids of Egypt as tombs and even all the tombs of the ancient Egyptians located west of the Nile with the sole exception of approx.

Since the outset, was the burial is in a hole oval with put some pots simple inside with the deceased for use in the other world, and if the deceased is buried in a fetal position in the mother's abdomen and to facilitate the birthday again and face the vector of the East, and with the passage of time Pit accommodate began and evolved to become a room or two rooms with increased tools developed inside and build brick walls and increased later develop to reach brick building above the ground the top of this closets and is called Balmustbh.

The form of a bench of two degrees

And with the beginning of the Third Dynasty 2780-2680 BC. M. appeared pyramid for the first time of King Djoser in Saqqara and thanks in this construction engineer genius Aamahotb and meaning of his name (next in peace), and won Aamahotb of honor that wrote King Djoser name on the base of his statue Royal, who is currently in the Egyptian Museum in predecessor did not recur in ancient Egyptian history that the ordinary person's name on the statue of King.
This was the first time you use the stones in construction, and is worth mentioning that the pyramid, which is the burial place of the king is associated with a group of other architectural elements and representing a funeral for the deceased king.

A general view shows a total of King Djoser Ganasais and Pyramid.

As for the idea of ​​the pyramid specifically has been associated with the pyramid have his thought cosmogony and thought as well, according to some writings and religious texts that the pyramid and means to help the spirit of the deceased to arrive in heaven with god Ra. And can see sometimes sunlight between the clouds and is take the pyramid also were also among the many ways that can help them to climb into the sky. See also Figure pyramid top obelisks and some small cemeteries mines in southern Egypt, even when he thought the kings of the modern state in building their tombs in the west in the Valley of the Kings and clicked on the soles of the mountain to protect it from being stolen have not given up the pyramid and who was the representative at the top of the mountain same and naturally.

View shows the form of sunlight between the clouds