Egypt is one of the destinations I would definitely like to travel for at least once. The pyramids, the caves, and the untold stories behind there creation all fascinate me a lot.
We’ve already heard a lot about Egypt, there culture, there inhabitants and so much more about the region itself in movies, and so many other media, still the inquisitiveness remains fired….it can only be sufficed when u have got a voyage to such an astonishing, adventurous, exploratory and beautiful place.
I feel it’s a heaven on this earth, and god has bestowed it everything that attracts a human like we can think of a situation when a gorgeous woman who owns heavenly magnificence along with a surreptitious behind its existence.
Rare is the condition when you can dig out yourself from the swamp of the beauty of this place. U gets more drowned inside it as much as u tries to get away from it.
Undoubtedly, Egypt being one of the places of my dreams. Salutation to the great souls behind these sculptures!
Here I m adding together some of the great Egyptian monument pictures and a brief description about them as well, I’ve also put here some material through Internet sites too. Hope people gonna admire it.
The Pyramids of Giza are the oldest and only remaining monuments ofthe Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. These massive structures were created as tombs for the rulers of the Old Kingdom (see the Timeline). Even after more than four thousand years of exposure and weathering, the Pyramids of Giza stand as awe-inspiring monuments to the genius and creativity of a long-dead culture.
| "*"Egyptologists currently believe that the design for the Egyptian Pyramid was inspired by the fact that the sand dunes in the desert naturally form a pyramidal shape, which is very stable. The Pyramids themselves developed out of designs of previous tombs. Early Egyptian tombs were bench-shaped mounds called mastabas. About 2780 B.C., King Zoser's architect, Imhotep, designed the first pyramid by layering six mastabas of decreasing size one on top of the other. Thus, the Step Pyramid was born. This pyramid was used, like its descendants, as a tomb for the dead king
During the reign of Snefru (c. 2680-2560 B.C.), the step pyramid became a smooth-sided pyramid. Snefru had his step pyramid at Medum filled in to form straight sides, then covered the structure with limestone (all the pyramids once had limestone casings, but during the occupation of Egypt by the Arabs, much of those coverings were removed to build cities such as Cairo). Later, another transition was made to add stability. At Bahshur, a smooth-sided pyramid was started with sides at an angle of incline over 51 degrees, but was changed half-way to about 43 degrees. This is known as the "Bent Pyramid." |
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| The Great Pyramid at Giza, built by Khufu (Cheops in Greek), is by far the best-known and most impressive of all the Egyptian Pyramids. Its original height was an astounding 481 feet, as high as a 40 story skyscraper and its base covers about 13 acres of land. The Pyramid contains approximately 2,300,000 limestone blocks, the average weight of each about 2.5tons, the heaviest weighing over 15 tons.
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| The Great Pyramid stands with two other pyramids. One for Khufu's son, Khafre (Chephren), and another for his successor, Menkaure (Mycerinus).
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| The Great Sphinx also stands on the Giza plateau. This immense sculpture, with the body of a lion and the head of a man, acts as the guardian of the tombs of the great kings according to the Ancient Egyptians. It was probablyulpted out of an unwanted mound of limestone in the desert during the time of Khafre.
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While the Pyramids are the most recognizable of Egyptian monuments, many other impressive structures were built by the ancients. Temples were constructed to pay tribute to the gods and the Pharaoh, who was considered a man-god himself. Shown to the right is the impressive Temple of Ramses II, considered to be the most powerful Pharaoh of Egypt."*"
reference: http://library.thinkquest.org/3011/egypt4.htm |
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