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The first pharaohs of Egypt were buried in
so called mastabas, rectangular constructions built upon some
underground mortuary rooms. Not very impressive, the mastabas
were made from bricks of land dried by sun that resist to the
time passing only in a small measure. A true revolution in this
area happened around 2630 BC, once with the building of the
architectonic complex from Sakkara. The first hand made
monuments in Egypt were some pyramids of stone; the first of
them was made by Imhotep for the Djoser pharaoh or for somebody
from his family. In the first time, it was just a classical
mastaba, over an underground mortuary chamber, which could rich
to the 28 meters depth, accessible through a shaft. The entrance
was put with a slab of granite having a weight of 3 tones. Under
the instructions of Imhotep, the construction was expended and
raised in several steps, as if the antique architect would had
tried to see till where it can go. Some experts say that the
funerary monument was conceived as a retort of the palace where
Djoser lived his life. Many of the Egypt's ulterior pyramids,
including the ones of Giza, are built after plans of a amazing
precision, but in the case of the steps pyramid from Sakkara we
can not talk about something like that, but of an architectural
experiment. To the initially building were added more than
200.000 tones of rock, till Imhotep was satisfied. Rising
mastabas smaller and smaller, one upon the other, it came to the
final shape of the pyramid with 6 levels and a height of 60
meters. Although it is said that the Egypt's pyramids are
handmade monuments, there are also theories according to which,
in the pharaohs times existed a somehow of technology for
building them. |
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