The Building and Design of the Pyramid of Giza

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The Great Pyramid of Giza has an amazing story to tell about its construction and design. The Great Pyramid of Giza is constructed using a unique process. Its interior is also very precisely designed.
The building process of the pyramid began with quarrying. Much information still has to be discovered about this step. However, evidence has been found that copper chisels were used for quarrying. Harder materials such as Dolerite were used to quarry granite and other hard rocks.
Roughly quarried granite needed to be cut into blocks. To find out how this was done, a British Egyptologist by the name of Denys Stocks performed experiments. His results showed that pouring quartz sand between the cutting edge of a tool and the rock gave the bite the toll needed to cut the rock, as a plain copper chisel would wear out if trying to cut granite. A theory was made that sand was substituted for the quartz sand in order to cut the rock into blocks.
The types of materials used for the building process were very specifically chosen. Limestone and granite were the main types of rock used. Limestone formed in great quantities in Egypt. Local limestone was used in the core while a finer quality of limestone was used on the exterior of the pyramid. Granite was used on a very grand scale, often for the inner walls. Stone was suitable for building only if it was healthy stone in natural condition with no breakage or cracks. Fire, heat, or cold were not used on the rock as they would produce fractures.
There are two theories about how we think Egyptians leveled the ground to build the Great Pyramid. Flinders Petrie proposed that the ground was leveled for the Great Pyramid by cutting a grid of shallow trenches into the bedrock, flooding t...

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The Ascending Passage connects to the Grand Gallery at the entrance to a room called Queen’s Chamber, a room finished with limestone and a room with a gabled ceiling. It states on www.europa.com, “The Grand Gallery also connects with a much larger room finished in highly polished granite having a flat ceiling known as the King's Chamber. The King's Chamber, 17 by 34 ft. by about 19 ft. high, is covered by five layers of large, 70-ton stone beams, each one the equivalent weight of a modern railroad locomotive!” A crawling space called the Well Shaft connects the lower Grand Gallery with the lower Descending Passage.
The Great Pyramid of Giza is very complexly structured and designed. Its interior design is also an example of great constructing skills at the time. This Ancient Wonder of the World is truly a great feat of architecture.

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