The Pyramids

The Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
What were the pyramids? They were great big tombs for great kings to be preserved in after their death. In the Ancient Egyptian culture, people who died went to the afterlife which was considered a better place than the land they lived on. Some of the pyramids were made more than 4000 years ago. One of the most famous pyramids of history was the Great Pyramid of Giza made by the pharaoh Cheops. It is found in Giza on the west bank of the river Nile. Nevertheless, that though it is bigger than other pyramids, all pyramids of Egypt are great.


Did you know………..
· That the Ancient Egyptians used the pyramids as a huge sundial to record time and dates of the year?
· They were more than large graves. They were granaries and treasure houses?
· If you weighed the average pyramid it would equal up to 5,400,00 tons?
· If you cut up the Great Pyramid into rods about 6cm square—join them together and you could have enough to reach the Moon?


Mummification
Part of the pyramid was mummies. This was when the dead bodies went to a place called the Beautiful House to get their guts cleaned out and put into canopic jars and then, rapped in millions of layers of linen. Only the important people, such as the pharaohs, were placed in a pyramid with their riches, pets and servants (the servant thing was when the people thought that the pharaoh needed their servants in the afterlife. This would mean the servants had to die with him. This tradition soon died out). The peasants were buried on the ground instead of being placed in a pyramid.

This is the information I have put on the worksheet about pyramids and there are some other pictures and a map of its location to go with it.