Egypt

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e (huge) buildings with a flat roof and just one floor. These were created to make the offerings. The real bureal chamber was cut out of the rock metres underneath and was only connected through a shaft. But Djoser wanted a different burial monument, so he asked Imhotep. Imhotep must have been the Leonardo Davinci of his time, because he knew all about healing, architecture and he was a priest. This genius figured out the first pyramid by piling up some mastabas. There was only one problem: Imhotep made his pyramid with brick and now his monument is not very strong. Djoser had a gigantic temple round his pyramid, as huge as an entire village. Snefroe was a successor of Djoser who copied his monument. But Snefroes plan didn't work out. He built three pyramids that were all no good. They were not strong enough and there is even a pyramid which has a crack. Nobody knows why, but egyptologist think there were not enough stones anymore or something like that.
Choefoe was the pharao with the largest pyramid. No-one knows how the pyramids were built, but there are some wild theories about. The theory where many believe in is that they were ...