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    The ancient Egyptians built pyramids approximately 4,500 years ago as tombs for important people such as pharaohs starting around 2,500 BC, though the practice of entombing in pyramids only lasted about 500 years due to tomb raiders, with the three largest and most famous pyramids being located at Giza near Cairo including the Great Pyramid built for Khufu around 2,550 BC containing over 2 million stone blocks weighing around 2.5 tons each.

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    The ancient Egyptians built pyramids approximately 4,500 years ago as tombs for important people such as pharaohs starting around 2,500 BC, though the practice of entombing in pyramids only lasted about 500 years due to tomb raiders, with the three largest and most famous pyramids being located at Giza near Cairo including the Great Pyramid built for Khufu around 2,550 BC containing over 2 million stone blocks weighing around 2.5 tons each.

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    The ancient Egyptians built pyramids approximately 4,500 years ago as tombs for important people such as pharaohs starting around 2,500 BC, though the practice of entombing in pyramids only lasted about 500 years due to tomb raiders, with the three largest and most famous pyramids being located at Giza near Cairo including the Great Pyramid built for Khufu around 2,550 BC containing over 2 million stone blocks weighing around 2.5 tons each.

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    Egyptian Pyramids

    BUILT ABOUT 4500 years ago, the 80 or so pyramids in Egypt are the oldest
    human made structures in the world. Of these, the famous three at Giza, near Cairo,
    are the most impressive. Their construction is an amazing feat of technology. Yet no
    one knows for sure how they were built. The ancient Egyptians had only simple tools
    made of stone, wood and bronze. They had no cranes, computers, rock cutters or
    heavy earthmoving equipment.
    Pyramids and rock tunnels
    From about 2500 BC, the mummies and treasures of important people such as
    pharaohs were usually entombed in pyramids. This practice lasted only about 500
    years, though, because robbers were a major problem. Thereafter, tombs for such
    people were dug into mounds and cliffs in the Valley of the Kings. But even these
    were not completely safe. Over time, they were all raided, except one the tomb of
    the pharaoh Tutankhamen.
    The Great Pyramid at Giza, built around 2550 BC, was the tomb of the pharaoh
    Khufu. The other two were built for his son Khafre and grandson Menkure. The Great
    Pyramid, the biggest of the three, is close to 150 metres high and contains around 2
    300 000 granite blocks, each of which weighs around 2.5 tonnes.
    Pyramid mysteries
    Some say that the technology of the pyramids is so astonishing that they must have
    been built by an alien intelligence. Another view is that those who built the pyramids
    at Giza, and the Great Sphinx that guards them, used knowledge and skills passed
    down from a very old, but highly advanced civilization that existed way before the
    Old Kingdom in Egypt.
    Heavenly sails
    One treasure the robbers missed in the Great Pyramid was a 43-metrelong boat, built
    to carry Chufa to the afterlife. It was not found until 1954. It had been broken into
    1224 pieces before being packed into a rock cavity near the base of the pyramid. The
    cavity was so tightly sealed that when archaeologists broke into it they could still
    smell the cedar oil in the wood after 4500 years!

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