This work is presented by: Julia Azcano, Ainhoa Alvarez anda Daniela Prieto.
The pyramids show, for their time, the great knowledge of the Egyptian technicians and the organizational capacity necessary to build such monuments with very simple means; but nothing seems to indicate that it was necessary a technology superior to the one that had the Egyptians represented by "ingenios" of wood, sleds, hypothetically, using the wheel, in the form of wooden rollers and ramps.
It is not known with certainty how the pyramids were built, since documents of their time that describe it have not survived. In addition, various materials were used (square stone, uncut stone, adobe) and various techniques in the construction of their cores (stacking blocks, resistant walls forming spaces filled with rubble, etc.).
There has been much discussion about the origin of the pyramidal form in human construction. The pyramids arose in different civilizations without contact with each other, which has given rise to a multitude of speculations of all kinds. However, from a purely structural or constructive point of view, the pyramidal shape is an almost inevitable result of the simple desire to gain height using stone.
In ancient times, the common architecture used materials that were easy to obtain and manipulate, such as clay or wood. However, this type of construction did not last in time. When a more long-lived building was desired, such as a tomb, or an emblematic building, then stone (or brick if the first was not available) was used. The first stone constructions therefore obeyed funerary or religious purposes, and both in Egypt (mastabas) and in America, although thousands of years later, they already adopted a truncated pyramid shape.
Over time, they began to build tombs and religious platforms on top of the previous ones1 (perhaps with the intention of manifesting greater power than the predecessor). This type of practice led to the stepped pyramids; a type of construction very similar to Mesopotamian ziggurat.
There is no record of the reasons that drove the step from this point to the typical pentahedral pyramid, although it is not unreasonable to think that the formal jump was simply aesthetic.
In ancient times, the common architecture used materials that were easy to obtain and manipulate, such as clay or wood. However, this type of construction did not last in time. When a more long-lived building was desired, such as a tomb, or an emblematic building, then stone (or brick if the first was not available) was used. The first stone constructions therefore obeyed funerary or religious purposes, and both in Egypt (mastabas) and in America, although thousands of years later, they already adopted a truncated pyramid shape.
Over time, they began to build tombs and religious platforms on top of the previous ones1 (perhaps with the intention of manifesting greater power than the predecessor). This type of practice led to the stepped pyramids; a type of construction very similar to Mesopotamian ziggurat.
There is no record of the reasons that drove the step from this point to the typical pentahedral pyramid, although it is not unreasonable to think that the formal jump was simply aesthetic.
Our personal opinion is that these pyramids are a monument that should be praised for a long time, since, at this time, having no machines to build them, making this triangular shape should be very complicated but they still managed to manufacture them.
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