Some of the loveliest works of art I have ever seen are to be found at Saqqara, in the tombs of the nobles. The limestone walls are delicately incised with myriads of animals, fish, birds, insects, vegetation and people – hunting, herding and farming.

Some of the forms still retain their original paint, after 4,500 years! The quality of these compositions demonstrates that the Egyptians had attained, at an early stage, an artistic culture of a very high order.

Cattle Crossing (above) is an etching made from sketches done at Saqqara. The medium of etching – itself a process of erosion seems well suited to capturing the time worn quality of the relief carving.

And Read :

• From Abraham to David – Yahweh
• Achaemenid Army
• Nazca Lines and Culture
• The Step Pyramid at Saqqara
• Welcome To The Nile Gift in Egypt
• About Society and Culture – Part 1
• Achaemenid Empire
• Queen Hatshepsut Pharaoh
• Zoroastrians and Judaism
• Sumeria, Ancient Sumeria (Sumer), A history of Ancient Sumer Including its Contributions

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The diagram shows the three design changes made during construction. 1st the mastaba, the traditional tomb of the pharaohs. 2nd the four step pyramid. 3rd enlarged to make a six step pyramid.

Saqqara has the distinction of being the site of the first large stone structure built in the world. The place where humans began to strive for the impossible, where the imagination gained the power to transform reality.

The first tombs of the pharaohs were large, unimpressive, bunker affairs called mastabas. They were made from sun dried mud brick and most have long since crumbled to dust. This all changed around 2630 BC with the erection of the step pyramid. It was made for the pharaoh, Djoser and began as a normal mastaba, but was subsequently enlarged by adding one mastaba on top of another until it consisted of six terraces some 200ft (60 meters) high. The surface was originally encased in smooth white limestone which must have caught the sun light and reflected its rays.

The chap responsible for the step pyramid was Imhotep, Djoser’s vizier. He is credited as being the inventor of building in stone and was a man of many talents – Architect, physician, master sculpture, scribe, and astronomer. He must be the first true genius in recorded history and his impression on the Egyptians was profound because later generations revered him as a god of wisdom.

You can find out more about pyramids in my book Imagining Egypt.
A Living Portrait Of The Time Of The Pharaohs.
How did they build the pyramids? See a step-by-step view

The Tombs of the Nobles

Some of the loveliest works of art I have ever seen are to be found at Saqqara, in the tombs of the nobles. The limestone walls are delicately incised with myriads of animals, fish, birds, insects, vegetation and people – hunting, herding and farming. Some of the forms still retain their original paint, after 4,500 years! The quality of these compositions demonstrates that the Egyptians had attained, at an early stage, an artistic culture of a very high order.

Cattle Crossing is an etching made from sketches done at Saqqara. The medium of etching – itself a process of erosion seems well suited to capturing the time worn quality of the relief carving.

And Read :

• Nazca Lines and Culture
• Sumeria, Ancient Sumeria (Sumer), A history of Ancient Sumer Including its Contributions
• Welcome To The Nile Gift in Egypt
• From Abraham to David – Yahweh
• Queen Hatshepsut Pharaoh
• Zoroastrians and Judaism
• Nefertiti
• WOMEN, RELIGION AND PIETY IN ANCIENT EGYPT
• the Great Sphinx
• Isis, Egyptian Goddess of Magic and Giver of Life

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Mysteries, Facts, Fictions, Controversy, Stories and Videos

Hundreds of websites and books on Ancient Egypt Pyramids, tells us that the Great Pyramids were build by 100,000 slaves and it took them 20 years to finish them. You will also hear that the Pyramids are simply tombs for the kings.

This is the “orthodox” story which other people don’t find plausable or verifiable as truth.

The reality of the matter is that no one really know the truth… of how the Ancient Egypt Pyramids were built, who build them and when. At least no body alive today knows.

I thought to bring you these three videos which I think are interesting. They give an “alternative” point of view on how the Ancient Egypt Pyramids were built in a an entertaining style.

But before you do, you could perhaps visit these two pages for a solid views on Egypt Ancient Pyramids.

And Read :

• Report of Egypt Pyramids
• Ancient Pyramids
• Khufu
• Interview with Dr. Zahi Hawass, Director of the Pyramids
• The Dig On Pyramids
• Egypt
• Welcome To The Nile Gift in Egypt
• Converging Pyramids
• History of Giza
• The Palace Hypothesis

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