Informative Speech: The Great Pyramid At Giza

Intro
Attention getter: The Great Pyramid at Giza is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, still standing.

5 million tons of stone, stacked 438 feet high, some 4,500 years ago, the Great Pyramid is the tallest and the largest of the Egyptian pyramids

The question arises, how was this pyramid built and why?

According to my audience analysis % of you said they were built by primitive hand tools, and % said of you believed that the pyramids primary function was as tombs for the kings.

Also, through my extensive studies I determined the Egyptians used electricity, electrochemistry, electromagnetics, hydrogeology, and physics to a considerable extent.

The myth that we advanced from a primitive state to an advanced state is simple false

Body I
The construction of the Great Pyramid is still a mystery and marvel to this day, there are seven major feats that archeologists still don’t understand. First, they carried 130 granite blocks over 500 miles, each block weighed between 12 and 70 tons.

Second, the Great Pyramid contained three chambers. To reach these chambers a tunnel was carved perfectly horizontally straight through the rock.

Third, the builders worked with more than 2 million pieces of stone, all of different shapes and sizes. This makes accurate building much more difficult. In spite of this, the upper chamber is perfectly horizontal and vertical up to one