Why Did The Ancient Egyptians Build So Many Pyramids? | Egypt Detectives | Unearthed History

Join archaeologist Miriam Cooke and Egyptologist Dominic Montserrat as they unravel the mystery of why the ancient Egyptians kept changing locations and building pyramids. Explore the religious and practical considerations behind the moves, from the first pyramid at Sakkara to the great pyramid of Giza and beyond. Was it a matter of geology, a deeper spiritual connection, or a unique perspective on sun worship?
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[@frankgrizzard]

Is much more interesting why there are so many other countries in the world that have more pyramids than Egypt

[@AmbassadorDavis]

They had massive whips, Rimmer. Massive, massive whips

[@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602]

Egypt was a populous country dedicated to agriculture, depending entirely on the natural cycles that caused the Nile River to flood. Sowing and harvesting could only occur after the water drained and the planting areas became dry. For several months of the year, Egyptians would have no work at all if the government didn't do something. So it is necessary to admit the hypothesis that the construction of pyramids had a triple purpose: religious, because the construction of the appropriate tomb would make the Pharaoh revive after death as Osiris; economic, providing work and income for the population in a period of floods when agriculture was impossible; political, in order to keep the population busy and disciplined, avoiding conspiracies, ruptures and civil wars. The Egyptians did not build pyramids during the period of greatest political stability. In fact they built political stability by maintaining the pyramid building program.

[@JenneeB927]

I think economics had a lot to do with it. It's well known the 1st intermediate period happened shortly after the 4th dynasty. The economic cost of building the pyramids was astronomical. Quite frankly, they ran out of money.

[@marybeckham4495]

Baal Worship? Electromagnetic properties inside.

[@neilputland9407]

no one has metioned doing it on a whim.

[@ivanj.conway9919]

Can we not please, start being open to the slimmest, possibility that the pyramids were more than mere, burial chambers, please.

[@LeeHoFooks]

Because they wanted too.

[@lawerancelanham]

plot twist. The smaller pyramids are newer and the sphynx was already there 😂

[@Magical-Ixalan]

Ego.

[@rogerscottcathey]

Nonsense.

[@Jason-xb3jh]

😂😂

[@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095]

Dreadful acting. {:o:O:}

[@noonehere1793]

Because they needed SOMETHING to do with all the people they had enslaved over the years?🙂

[@Ubique2927]

Enslaved? Who?

[@bunzeebear2973]

Just another "theory"- they of today dreamed up.

[@davidcameron1792]

Egyptians never built the pyrmids

[@mk1479]

@@wildrose2748 Certainly not the the Egyptians. It's said it took 15-30yrs to build. OK.. look at how many granite block there are, and then do a small calculation. It turns out that they had to place one block in its proper position in a three-dimensional puzzle with no blueprints/drawings every 2 minutes. That's excluding the cutting and polishing, tolerances that are hard to come by even today. All that done with copper tools?

[@mk1479]

@@wildrose2748 Your guess is as good as mine. They were there long before the Egyptians came to be. An advanced Pre-flood civilization possibly? As history is deliberately obfuscated to follow a set paradigm, one will never know.

[@mk1479]

@@wildrose2748 Nope, there are no aliens, but that's another rabbit hole that goes somewhat deep.

[@dewardroy6531]

The video shows the pyramids were built with limestone blocks, much softer and easier to work than granite, making copper tools quite plausible.

[@Ubique2927]

@@mk1479.. you need to go to maths school.

[@paulhammersley4562]

"Why Did The Ancient Egyptians Build So Many Pyramids?"... sorry to disappoint you darling but they did NOT build the pyramids.

[@mk1479]

@@wildrose2748 Look at my post above.

[@paulhammersley4562]

@@wildrose2748 no idea, but definitely not the Egyptians, if you look at all the hieroglyphs/carvings in Egypt there's not one description of pyramid building.

[@Ubique2927]

Oh dear. Not another idiot proving just how big an idiot.

[@scottdiamond74]

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