Egyptian pyramids - one of the 7 Wonders of the World old . Texts and drawings inside the pyramid of Pharaoh praised the divine power , and the mighty walls of the pyramid reliably defended the burial of the king. Egyptian pyramids - this architectural monuments of ancient Egypt.
Only one of the "Seven Wonders of the World ", which has come down to our days, are just pyramid. Ancient Egyptian architecture even today affects the power of their huge stone structures. Among the huge columns of ancient temples , towering to the sky and standing often as trees in a forest , you can get lost. At the entrance to these facilities , there are huge statues of the pharaohs , are made of stone sphinxes . Sphinx - Ancient Egypt - the embodiment of royal power , statue depicting a fantastic creature with a lion's body and a human head or a sacred animal .Many interesting Egyptian pyramids , in particular the Great Pyramid . About 5 thousand years ago in the valley of the lower reaches of the Nile first appeared small slaveholding states . At the end of the IV millennium BC. e . rulers one of them subjugated the country , creating a single kingdom centered in the city of Memphis , located on the left bank of the Nile - south of the place where now stands the city of Cairo . About 2800 BC. e . the ruler of the state was the pharaoh Khufu . Subsequently, its name in Greek historians altered Cheops . So we call it in our time . In the hands of the Pharaohs concentrated enormous wealth and unlimited power . Egyptian pyramids
His grandfather and father of Cheops spent their wealth not only on the court luxury and majestic tombs - the pyramids , which were to immortalize the names terrible rulers. Their slaves erected dam broke through channels arranged gateways to evenly distribute the waters of the Nile for irrigation . Due to this field with high yields starred Egypt that brought the Pharaohs and more income