Were the pyramids built 4000 years ago?

For centuries, they were the tallest structures on the planet. The Pyramids of Giza, built over 4,000 years ago, still stand atop an otherwise flat, sandy landscape. One of the Seven Wonders of the World, the pyramids defy 21st-century humans to explain their greatest secrets.



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Egypt was one of the first civilizations to develop a written language, build great cities, and create both organized religion and a central government. In 2700 BCE, almost 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians built their first pyramid.

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The Pyramids of Giza date back over 4,500 years when they were built for the three Ancient Pharaohs – Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure. They were built as massive tombs and were the tallest standing man-made structures for thousands of years.

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In De-Nile The Nile Valley was the seat of an ancient Egyptian civilization that spanned over 4,000 years. In 3,000 B.C.E., Egypt looked similar geographically to the way it looks today. The country was mostly covered by desert.

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Egyptologists believe the Sphinx to be approximately 4500 years old.

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This is something impossible since Archaeology and history tell us that the pyramids at the Giza plateau are around 4.500 years old.

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It was the Egyptians who built the pyramids. The Great Pyramid is dated with all the evidence, I'm telling you now to 4,600 years, the reign of Khufu. The Great Pyramid of Khufu is one of 104 pyramids in Egypt with superstructure. And there are 54 pyramids with substructure.

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Many people have said that the pyramids would last 1 million years or even until the world ended, but I'd say around 10,000 to 100,000 years based on current observations.

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Perhaps such images were created by people before embarking on a journey through the desert,” said Polkowski. The deserts surrounding Egypt were not always deserts. The archaeologist says that 10–8,000 years ago this place was full of life - it was a savannah inhabited by numerous animals.

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But what the Egyptians lacked in tools, they made up for with science and engineering precision. Smith explains that they developed and used the cubit rod to measure and lay out the dimensions of the pyramid; a square level to level horizontal surfaces, and a 3:4:5 framing square to create precision 90-degree angles.

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They don't sink because they're built on solid limestone. If the ancient Egyptians were just amateurs building their huge monuments on sand, time would have erased all traces of them during the past 5000 years.

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One of the biggest mysteries about the Egyptian pyramids is the construction techniques used to erect them. The incredible feat of the Egyptians is all the more impressive when taking into consideration that over 2 million limestone and granite blocks were used to build the Great Pyramid of Giza.

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For example, the 18th Dynasty of the Egyptians dates from the 14th Century BC, whilst the Aztecs didn't begin to flourish in the Valley of Mexico till the 14th Century AD, making any contact or communication between the two cultures impossible.

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