Note Taking

 -One of the most impressive legacies today

-Culture interests people even now

-Richest and most powerful nations

-Pyramid of Giza only great wonder left

-More than a hundred of pyramids

-Believe in the after life

-Plateaus for the dead

-Step-Pyramids

-Pharaoh to the heavens

-1000 years of pyramid building

-Red Pyramid

-Kufu

-Pyramid of Giza, largest pyramid - 10 - 20 years

-For 4000 years tallest man-made structure

-2.3 million blocks of stone

-Encased Polished white limestone

-Burial treasures

-Guards (Fake burial chambers, fake pathways)

Egyptain Culture	Egyptian Legacy	Modern View Of Egyptians
-Burials were first built under sand, but wild animals had dug up their corpses and their belongings. -People were buried with things they may have needed in the afterlife. -There were fake burial chambers and fake pathways to prevent thieves from stealing their stuff.	-The Pyramids remain till today. -Great Pyramid of Giza. -Smooth Pyramids were built, thus creating the Red Pyramid.	-Millions of people visit each year. Still a mystery to how the Great Pyramids were built.

Miscellaneous: 

Hemiunu’s sons created the Great Sphinx.

Three smaller pyramids for Hemiunu’s wives.

Mastaba, the architect?