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The pyramids of Giza built for the Khafre
king, for the Khufu king and for the Menkaure king (all of them
being kings of the 4ty dynasty) are not so very beautifully
adorned as they used to be but they still dominate the line of
the Cairo's sky. The pyramid of Khufu is the biggest
construction made by humans- except for the Great China Wall.
This pyramid is also the first on the list of the seven wonders
of the ancient world and the only wonder that survived. The
Khufu pyramid has a height of 146.6 meters, the equivalent of a
50 floors sky-scraper. On this pyramid surface would enter the
world’s five biggest churches and from the stones used to built
this pyramids could have been built all the churches built in
Germany in the last 1000 years. The pyramid of Khufu has 6 400
000 tones. The pyramids were built to protect the bodies of the
deceased kings, their jewelries, their furniture and other
objects which the kings would use in their afterlife. The
pyramids for the queens were smaller. The pyramid complexes
included a funerary temple which was linked of a temple in the
Valley trough a stoned way. In the temple the funerary rituals
were made. After the dead of the king his body was embalmed, his
brain and his viscera were taken away; the body was preserved in
lye wash and put in a sheet. All these were accompanied by the
lecture of some holly texts and ceremonials. After 70 days the
mummy was put in the mortuary chamber. The immense dimensions of
the pyramids from the 4th dynasty and the immense resources that
made their building possible speak for themselves about the
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