How The Great Pyramid Was Real

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years ago they had coalesced into
two kingdoms, that of the valley, Upper Egypt, and that of the Delta, Lower Egypt" (Mendelssohn 15). Each
kingdom made their own distinctive differences by choosing animals as their symbols. The king of Upper Egypt
wore a white crown which was affixed to the head of its totem animal, the vulture (Mendelssohn 15). The king of
lower Egypt wore red and carried the head of the cobra (Mendelssohn 15). When the kingdoms combined the
crowns were combined, with the vulture and cobra heads side by side. By uniting the two kingdoms more people
worshipped one king.
From the beginning of humanity, there has been distinctive observations with the burial of the dead.
The purpose of burial was not only for disposal of the body but for the preparation for its after- life. The Egyptians
believed that in order for the soul to pass into the next life, the body must remain intact; hence, to preserve it,
they developed the procedures of ...

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and the country's political union, the time was ready
to organize labor and build the Great Pyramid.
A great amount of time went into planning and building the Great Pyramid. The entire process was
completed within Khufu's 23-year reign in about 2600 B.C. (Casson 23). The use of physical labor and simple tools
was the method of construction. Egyptians had very limited resources in their geological area. The pyramid was
constructed of about two million blocks of stone, most of them weighing two and a half tons apiece (Edwards 116).
No records of the architectural design, written by the designers of the Great Pyramid, have been found on paper.
Consequently, only one may ...

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