Pyramids, focusing on the Great Pyramid of Giza and talking about how this is related to our government in Manitoba

1. Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

2. Ancient Egyptian Pyramids
Over a 100 built
Burying places for Pharaohs,Queens

3. Giza
Site of 3 very large pyramids
Also location of Sphinx
Location of the
causeway/boats/smaller
pyramids/builder tombs and . . .?

5. The Great Pyramid of Giza
20 years and 20,000 people to
build(?)
Finished about 2560 BCE

6. The Great Pyramid of Giza
• Incredibly large structure, by any standard.
height, area, volume, weight.
• Built with incredible accuracy
• Still largely intact

7. The Great Pyramid of Giza
• Golden Cap Stone
• Polished White Limestone

8. The Great Pyramid of Giza
• Main structure built with limestone
• Well over a million blocks used
• Each block weighs at least 2.5 tons. Some are
15 tons
• Granite in the inside chambers
• Constant temp
inside

9. The Great Pyramid of Giza
• Blocks fit within the width of a credit card
• A couple centimeters off level 4000 years
later
• Nearly perfectly aligned with True North
• Ball and Socket joints used at the corners

10. The Great Pyramid of Giza
• Pi and Phi
(golden ratio)
found throughout
the pyramid
And . . .
http://www.manitoba-eh.ca/legislative-virtual-tour.htm

11. A sphinx???

12. What does it say?

13. Room leading to the sitting room has flights of 13 stairs, is guarded by the bison
and is 66.6 feet wide, long and high