Great Pyramid of Giza - the only pyramid with ascending and descending passes. One can not be isolated in its design it is a huge descent, called the "big gallery". At its end is a narrow passage that leads to the "king room", where the walls are decorated with polished granite. Scientists believe that the "room of the King" was a triumph of Egyptian geometry, because, according to their calculations, it was built in proportion to the golden section. The sarcophagus is made of red granite monolith, with its size even more than the entrance to the room itself. The sarcophagus was first found in an open type with no jewelry inside. Nowadays no one knows whether it was intended for the pharaoh's body. At the very center is located the smallest
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As stated by the ancient Greeks, among them the Herodotus, one of the first historians who described in detail this magnificent building, he states that “On the pyramid it is declared in Egyptian writing how much was spent on radishes and onions and leeks for the workmen, and if I rightly remember that which the interpreter said in reading to me this inscription, a sum of one thousand six hundred talents of silver was spent; and …show more content…
Nevertheless, the details of the story have nothing to do with reality. So far, no signs of that Herodotus supposedly seen on the pyramid - or at the most of pyramid or on the facing of the blocks or on the parts of the pyramids that are scattered on the plateau or on the stones that were used for the later construction. Data on the number of workers are being questioned by many modern scholars. According to them, it is just do not have enough space on the construction site for so many people: more than 8,000 people would not be able to work productively without interfering with each other. During the construction of the pyramids of Egypt was a rich country. Every year, from late June to November Neal coming out of the shores and poured its waters adjacent field leaving on
As stated by the ancient Greeks, among them the Herodotus, one of the first historians who described in detail this magnificent building, he states that “On the pyramid it is declared in Egyptian writing how much was spent on radishes and onions and leeks for the workmen, and if I rightly remember that which the interpreter said in reading to me this inscription, a sum of one thousand six hundred talents of silver was spent; and …show more content…
Nevertheless, the details of the story have nothing to do with reality. So far, no signs of that Herodotus supposedly seen on the pyramid - or at the most of pyramid or on the facing of the blocks or on the parts of the pyramids that are scattered on the plateau or on the stones that were used for the later construction. Data on the number of workers are being questioned by many modern scholars. According to them, it is just do not have enough space on the construction site for so many people: more than 8,000 people would not be able to work productively without interfering with each other. During the construction of the pyramids of Egypt was a rich country. Every year, from late June to November Neal coming out of the shores and poured its waters adjacent field leaving on