Who+Built+the+Pyramids

**The Egyptian Pyramid, Smithsonian**

 * The World's Oldest Papyrus andz What It Can Tell Us About the Great Pyramid, Smithsonian (2015)**
 * **Shipping, mining and farming propelled the Egyptian economy**

[[image:rotating gif.gif width="43" height="43"]]For more on the achievements of ancient Egyptian civilization, **link to Grade 7.16**
[|Who Built the Pyramids: Not Slaves]. Archeaologist Mark Lehner, Digging Deeper Discovers a City of Privileged Workers

For more,see [|Nova report on the latest findings]

[|How Old Are the Pyramids?] has data on radiocarbon dating of different sites

[|Here's How Scientists Know the Pyramids Were Built to Store Pharaohs, Not Grain]

**Construction**

 * Archaeologists Uncover Proof of How Ancient Egyptians Built the Great Pyramid**
 * Boats brought the stones to an ancient port at the site; water transport was made possible by the annual flooding of the Nile River

[|A New Theory on How Ancient Egyptians Built the Pyramids]
 * Wet sand made it easier to drag 10 to 15 ton stones across the desert

Architectural elements used by the Ancient Egyptians

[|Pyramids of Giza & the Sphinx] from Live Science

[|A New High-Tech Project Aims to Unearth the Secrets of the Pyramids,] Good Magazine, December 22, 2015


 * Take the pyramid challenge.


 * Link to an [|interactive view of the Pyramids at Giza]


 * [|Egyptian Tomb Adventure] from National Museums Scotland



[|Primary Sources of the Old Kingdom]

**The Great Pyramid**


[|History of Giza] from Nova

[|The Great Pyramid of Giza]from Kahn Academy

Scientists Say They've Found Hidden Space in the Great Pyramid of Giza, NPR (November 2, 2017)


 * [[image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Red_Apple.jpg width="80" height="68"]]Lesson Plans**

[|Egypt's Pyramids: Monuments with a Message]from Edsitement

[|Egyptian Pyramids] from Stanford History Education Group

[|What Indiana Jones Gets Wrong (and Right) about Archaeology], Chicago Tribune, November 5, 2014


 * [[image:rotating gif.gif width="43" height="43" link="The Seven Wonders of the World"]]Link to the Seven Wonders of the World **