The Great pyramid of king Cheops part 2

It is the largest and most perfect pyramid in Egypt and considered to be one of the 7 wonders of the world.

it was built by king Cheops under the supervision of Heminu the overseer of all the kings work .
King Cheops was son of king Snefru .
His mother queen was Hetp- Hers .
And his wife queen was Merrytites, he reigned for about 23 years .
It is said that the pyramid was 20 years in the making and the work continuous with groups of hundreds of men at time working for 3 months a year and 2,300,000 blocks of stone were used for building this pyramid.
He weight of each of these stones various between 2 and half tons to 15 tons .
The pyramid was built of localstoone and cased with Tura limestone .
According to Herodtus , the outer faces of the pyramid were covered by Hieroglyphic texts fortunately , the outer casing has now almost is appeared except for a few blocks of this casing still remaing in their original places at the base of the northern side .
6- in the middle king Dom , the blocks of the outer casing were used for building houses , bridges , walls and other building .
7- the kings of the 26th dynasty showed great respect to the pyramid and its complex .
Its temples were provided with priests in order to resume the religious service for the king.
8- In the Roman period , the pyramid was open to visitors .
9- the pyramid was built on an almost square plan , it is now 137 m high but was originally 140 m high .
Each side once measured 230 m but due to the loss of casing blocks , they are now only 227 m
The angles of the sides were 51
The enterance of the pyramid is situate in the northern side at the height of 16.5 m above the ground which Is now located .
Another enterance was cut below the original enterance in the 9th century A.D known as El- Maamum hole
There are 3 chambers within the pyramid
Inside the built section and underlying the structure.
These are thought to make changes in the plan of the whole building .

The Great pyramid of king Cheops part 2

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