What is a pyramid?

Egyptian pyramid - is a mysterious quadrangular stone building iconic character. In ancient Egypt (very ancient, 4700-4300 years ago) was used as a cover for the tomb of the pharaoh to highlight its greatness, inspire awe in children, and how to protect the carcass of the ruler and his acquired right from Tomb-raiders. The poor and naive pharaohs!


How it was done?


Long and difficult. Each Pharaoh had time to build a tomb and got down to business almost from the first day of the reign, and no wonder - the average period of construction of the pyramids was ten or twenty years - no one could reach as much time on the throne. In short, the process was as follows: Pharaoh claimed the project in the quarries are cut blocks on the Nile were brought to the construction site, and there are piled pyramid, pre-clearing the place of sand. The foundation must always be the natural rock.


There is a stereotype, like the pyramids were built armies of slaves and the Jews, who were driven to the construction site with the slogan "Work makes you free". But in fact it was not so. Scientists have proved that the construction of the pyramids season ranked free peasants when the harvest had already been cleaned and nothing much else to do. Every area of ​​Egypt in turn would send their workers. The Pharaohs were not such fools to harm based on their economy - agriculture. Working conditions were also quite tolerable, archaeologists have found in the workers' towns almost all the places that helped workers to relax - until the blackjack.


Also, workers who came to build the pyramids, even paid, and no small by the standards of wages. A key one. Pharaoh could not afford to build a house of his soul slaves. Only free people can build places of worship. This is about the same as in ancient Scandinavia slave had no right to be on the boat paddler. The use of prisoners of war, too, does not forbidden, and even Pharaoh was considered a gesture of charity.


Work on the construction of the pyramids was the ancient Egyptians honored. The Pharaohs then considered "fathers of the people" and by working at a construction site as an Egyptian farmer to work for the common good. Like, happy with the quality and size of its tomb pharaoh, when he dies, will divinely protect the country from drought, disease and war, and Anubis will not be so strictly accountable farmer after death.


But a little later, when the tear in the stomach of the great construction projects of communism was not prestigious and crisis broke out in Egypt and hunger, farmers began to drive back the life-giving repression. As a result, people could not stand and made a revolution. A little later, when everything was settled down cops decided to bring back the glorious tradition piramidostroeniya, but the people have swallowed an air of freedom and did not want to build anything.


The descendants of the pharaohs did not appreciate the idea and within a few centuries or even decades, first began to actively rob the contents of the pyramids, and then did not take away their less active in the building materials for their huts, huts and palaces. Even later pharaohs did not disdain sometimes "borrow" some bricks and stones from the old pyramid, or when there was a hole in the budget, forbidding zolotishko refiner of the graves of their colleagues.


A modern man can not accept the fact that sometimes it's easier than it sounds. Very difficult for him to understand that the Egyptian pyramids - just a very large sites, covering the long empty sarcophagi of pharaohs. Therefore, there are various theories, and not very smart about them in the Piramidosrach. For the sake of example, the early Christians received a lot easier in this sense: the pyramids were declared ancient barns that are created for the sake of the biblical Joseph proforage Egyptians during the famine years, and all any more theories.


Attraction for tourists

Despite the deafening heat from Rousseau tourists is one of the favorite routes. Still, after photos of a camel against a carpet, an Arab and a pyramid somewhere on yuhe - the most it! Plus five to charisma and respect, minus three Intellect.


In fact, many of the pyramids in Egypt, but for some reason persistently tourist rides to three: Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure. It must be because all three are close to Cairo and long overgrown with all sorts of services. All the rest are either far away (or at yukh away in the desert), or the type is not particularly large (compared to the first).

Pyramids are inseparable here with that junk generated by the religion of the Egyptians, and all sorts of Hollywood

Mummy - bandaged and impregnated with a special balm ("mummy") carcass, not decaying and rotting even after thousands of years. Maybe I should tell you about the embalming process, as it gives a lot of lulz fans Guro. So, first removed the interior: the heart, liver, lungs, and placed in a specially made (and in the case of the Pharaohs and painted) vessels - canopic jars. Then (already in a dead state, lol!) Cut language. Then, at last, take out the EDT, by inserting a long, thin rod-to-head, wrapping him brain cells and dissolve in vinegar. Actually, on the carcass is soaked for several days, or even weeks, mayanezike in a special sauce, then taken out and wrapped with bandages. Next, sprinkle to taste good-smelling balm. And the result is something like a safe canned stuffed man.

If this is the mummy of Pharaoh, it is placed in a coffin, and that coffin - another sarcophagus, wider (and blasphemy - two coffins reliable than one), and then to another and another, thousands of them.

Thanks to all the "adventure" movies hamsters imposed a terrible myth that mummies come to life and devour the hapless robbers or just torn to pieces. But it's a myth,% username%. Although, who knows ...

ALSO Egyptians had a weakness for nyashnye mummies of cats, dogs, a variety of birds, bulls, crocodiles, even hippopotamuses, but given the fact that, unfortunately, had no effect in popular culture.


But at our Howard Lovecraft has a story about the composite mummies - "Buried with the Pharaohs." It is interesting that the main character has got itself into a pyramid Nyarlathotep.



The most effective security system in Egyptian were boulders poprochnee yes - they are in the corridors of several layers laid in the tomb (which did not prevent the robbers make their new saps and tunnels).


Egyptians liked to arrange the pyramids deep wells at the bottom of which unlucky Tomb-raider perfectly turned into mummies themselves, becoming another object of study for the British scientists. Only here it worked only once - burglars do not walk alone.



It all started with the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun in 1922. When you open the archaeologists saw the inscription "Curse of the Pharaoh punish violated his peace!". But they were human and rational because they obeyed climbed. What happened next?


Lord Carnarvon died 4 months after visited the tomb. A few days after Carnarvon died archaeologist Arthur Mace. Archie died shortly radiologist Reid. A few months later he died an American, George Gould, also visited the tomb. In 1928, Carter died unexpectedly Secretary Richard Bartel. In 1930 he committed suicide stepbrother Carnarvon. Soon after the age of 61 died (from an unknown insect bite), widow of the lord.



No comments yet. Naturally, such a number of deaths could not lead one to believe that this is not a coincidence, no! The newspapers were happy to have found a new sensation and trumpeted around the world, "Curse of King Tut! Archaeologists have died immediately after opening! Read the newspapers! ".


Archaeologists have been at least two reasons to fear the opening of the tomb of Pharaoh, and both of them had nothing to do with the "curse."


First, the inside did not look very long time, and there could well be got any viruses or fungi. Fungi fairly mowed Egyptologists. Banal mold if it enters the lungs gives better than TB. Hyphae lump the size of a fist is not too conducive to the healthy respiration, also devours the lungs and poisons every govnetsom.


Second, the excavations were carried out in a large number of malarial mosquitoes from biting them suffered one-third, and dying - each second.


But even these versions are not concerned. If you look at the dates of birth of scientists, a sudden it turns out that most of the dead were already "aged" (70, 71, 72 years). What they all died within a short period of time - not even a match, and quite a pattern.


In addition, an archaeologist Carter, who discovered Tutankhamun, instead of immediately die from the "curse of the pharaoh", lived to an advanced age (66 years old) died of old age banal. In connection with this ridiculous version was put forward in a spirit of Fomenko for the authorship of some of Stanislav Polyakov "The opening of the century was the century forgery?" Claiming that no Tutankhamun were not there, Carter came up with it, and then began to kill those who could not reveal his secret. Yeah, and he destroyed the chapel, too.


Michael Jackson. Clip «Remember the Time». Suddenly, Black Pharaohs, as shown in the video, not invented for the sake of political correctness, but really existed, and even once during the whole dynasty ruled Egypt. Also, the daughter of the very Cleopatra named Cleopatra, too, was married to the Black Lord Pharaoh (and when her granddaughter was born that it is also called Cleopatra). Black pharaohs were called rulers of Nubia and Ethiopia for thousands of years cosplay Egyptian Pharaohs.


Lulz: even ceased to rule Egypt, Black Pharaohs still tyschyachu years continued to wear the title of "Pharaoh of Upper and Lower Egypt" (although Cleopatra never ruled Macedonia, bore the title of Queen of Macedonia)


Lulz: the descendants of the Black Pharaohs - famous for the fact that the Ethiopians otpizdili wop, which did not help even machine guns (all of Europe then urzhatsya). To cope with the Ethiopians wop needed tanks and combat aircraft (this time whinnying Hitler over Mussolini, trying to keep the person Sviborgom).


Computer games of all times and genres - from the Mario and Sonic, and ending with the first «Serious Sam» (where the final battle takes place in the pyramid of Cheops, which is a bit of parking areas spacecraft from Sirius). Warhammer And also, with these Nekrony His sleeping in their monoliths - chthonic pyramids antigravity propulsion with phase cannons and other garbage for otpuchivaniya lubiteley adventures of other races.

In one of the episodes of Futurama characters come to the planet - a replica of ancient Egypt - where the aliens told them that the ancient Egyptians taught them how to build pyramids. And then offer to join the construction. Naturally, as slaves.

Despite the fact that they are not so little, almost all of them are based on the same scenario. A group of archaeologists to excavate comes to Egypt. There they accidentally run into yet undiscovered tomb of the Pharaoh. On opening it, they see the mummy (and who else?). After a while (sometimes - in front of the workers) SUDDENLY mummy comes to life and starts to eat the hapless people caught in its path. Those who missed the dinner, finishing off the traps left behind by the Egyptians carefully (read about them later). Once the limit has been exhausted Guro, mummy somehow subjected eksterminatusu (either through a magical Mojo, or just shoot - although the mummies is usually not active). The end.