It would be my life's dream to visit the Egyptian pyramids. They're awe-inspiring.
There are actually 118-138 Egyptian pyramids.
Wow! I had no idea!  I think they were built by slaves.  Do you think they ever imagined any of them would ever be finished?
It is hard to really say. Most of them were basically tombs for pharaohs.
Yes.  I believe it took twenty years to build them but I'm not sure. Do you know?
No I had no idea! I do know the first one was constructed around 2600 BC though.
That's amazing.  The technology they used to build them is so impressive combined with the fact that we still don't know how they were built today.
were designed by the architect Imhotep, and are generally considered to be the world's oldest monumental structures constructed of dressed masonry.
The most famous Egyptian pyramids are those found at Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo. Several of the Giza pyramids are counted among the largest structures ever built. The Pyramid of Khufu at Giza is the largest Egyptian pyramid. It is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still in existence.
Historical development.
By the time of the Early Dynastic Period, those
am a father but have never had my kids snatched. If I'm just sitting at home and my children are out late at night and they say they're going to be back at midnight and they don't come back, you immediately think they're dead and you start to worry. If they'd actually been snatched, it would have affected my entire life forever. I would never have recovered from it. I would have been frightened every time one of them left my side. Therefore the consequence of running a