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'''The Pyramids of Egypt '''Before the year 3150 B.C Egypt was two lands or two parts, upper Egypt and lower Egypt, and then a unified kingdom was founded by king Menes(or Narmer) leading to a series of dynasties that ruled Egypt for the next three millennia. The first two ruling dynasties of a unified Egypt set the stage for the old kingdom period 2700-2800, famous for its many pyramids. It is believed the pyramids were built as tombs for the Egyptian Pharaohs. The Ancient Egyptian people believed that death on Earth was the start of a journey to the next world. The embalmed body of the king was entombed underneath or within the pyramids to protect it and allow his transformation and ascension to the afterlife, and a place among the Gods.

Brief history of the Pyramids
The Pyramid shape might have represented the sun's rays which the dead kind would use as a ramp to the celestial realm. There is another theory says that the Pyramid shape may have symbolized a pyramidal mound from which the Egyptians believed the world was created. In Egypt there are many pyramids, more than 100 pyramids, but the most famous are the Pyramids of Giza. The first large Egyptian Pyramid was the step pyramid at Saqqara which belongs to the king Djoser who died during the third dynasty of the old kingdom. The greatest achievements of the pyramid builders were THE PYRAMIDS OF GIZA, built for the fourth dynasty kings Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure who ruled through 2588-2504 B.C. This ancient funerary complex is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world and the only one still exist. They were massive tombs constructed on the orders of the Pharaohs by teams of workers tens of-thousands strong. Ongoing excavations on the Giza plateau have provided more evidence that the workers were not slaves of Hollywood tradition, but an organized workforce of Egyptian farmers. But the question is: did they work the hole year around? The year in Ancient Egypt was divided into 3 seasons the flood season, the planting season and the harvest season. During the flood season, when the Nile covered their fields, the same farmers could have been redeployed by the highly structures bureaucracy to work on the Pharaoh's tomb. So, they work only one season every year. Pyramids building continued until the end of the Middle Kingdom. But unfortunately all the Pyramids were robbed by the New Kingdom, when the construction of the royal tombs in the valley of the kings began.