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The Egyptian Pyramids
The Egyptian pyramids are ancient pyramid-shaped masonry structures located in Egypt. There are 138 pyramids must have been discovered in Egypt as of 2008. Most might have beenbuilt as tombs for the country's Pharaohs and their consorts during the Old and Middle Kingdom periods.
The earliest known Egyptian pyramids can be found at Saqqara, northwest of Memphis. Theearliest among these is the Pyramid of Djoser (constructed 2630 BCE–2611 BCE) which was built during the third dynasty. This pyramid and its surrounding complex were designed by the architect Imhotep, andare generally considered to be the world's oldest monumental structures constructed of dressed masonry.
The estimate of the number of workers it took to build the pyramids have a wide range from afew thousand, twenty thousand, and up to 100,000. The most famous Egyptian pyramids may be those found at Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo. Several of the Giza pyramids are counted among the largeststructures ever built. The Pyramid of Khufu at Giza might be the largest Egyptian pyramid. It is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still in existence.
Historical development

TheMastaba of Faraoun, at Saqqara.
By the time of the early dynastic period of Egyptian history, those with sufficient means were buried in bench-like structures known as mastabas.
The secondhistorically documented Egyptian pyramid might be attributed to the architect Imhotep, who planned what Egyptologists believe to be a tomb for the pharaoh Djoser. Imhotep is credited with being the first toconceive the notion of stacking mastabas on top of each other – creating an edifice composed of a number of "steps" that decreased in size towards its apex. The result was the Step Pyramid of Djoser –which was designed to serve as a gigantic stairway by which the soul of the deceased pharaoh could ascend to the heavens. Such was the importance of Imhotep's achievement that he was deified by...