Gizeh Wallpapers

Gizeh Egypt - photo wallpapers: Before describing the imposing and famous funerary complex at Gizeh we might look at wath that famous Greek "journalist", Herodotus, had to say about it on the basis of the testimony of warious foreigners who had lived in Egypt. Altough Herodotus often citicized Egypt and its inhabitants he nevertheless left us an incredible amount of precious information. He writes "Cheops left behind him a colossal piece of work, his pyramid. Up to the reign of Rhampsinitus, Egypt was excelently gowerned and very prosperous. Cheops, his successor, compelled his subjects to labour as slaves for him. Some were forced to drag blocks of stone from the quarries in the Arabian hills to the Nile, where they were ferried across and taken over by others who hauled them to the Libyan hills. The work went on in threemonthly shifts, a hundred thousand men in a shift. It took ten years to build the track along which the blocks were hauled, a work of hardly less magnitude than the pyramid itself, for it is 5 stadia long (923,5 metres), 10 orgyia wide (18,47 metres) and 8 orgyia high (14,78 metres) at its highest point, and is constructed of polished stone blocks decorated with carwings of animals. It took ten years to build, including the underground burial chambers on the hill where the pyramids stand. A cut was made from the Nile, so that the water so deviated turned the site of the pyramid itself took twenty years. It is square at the base, the lenght of each side, 8 plethras (246.26 metres), being equal to the height. It is made of polished, beautifully fitted, stone blocks none of the blocks being less than 30 feet long (9.24 metres)."

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