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Pyramids are stone structures with a square base and sloping sides meeting at the apex. In ancient Egypt they were built as burial monuments. They are usually very large monolithic structures with only a few small rooms.

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• Door Shuts on Pyramid's Mysteries

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/2259838.stm
  The BBC reports that the secrets of Egypt's Great Pyramid of Cheops will remain locked up for another 12 months after a door blocks a miniature robot explorer.

• Egyptian Centres of Cult Worship

  http://great-pyramid.info/inhalt/html/me/mstarte.htm
  Photographs and sectional drawings of the Egyptian pyramids.

• Engineering the Pyramids

  http://www.materials.drexel.edu/Pyramids
  Professor Michel Barsoum describes evidence that parts of the Great Pyramids of Giza were built using an early form of concrete.

• Great Pyramid of Khufu - El Giza, Egypt - Great Buildings Online

  http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Great_Pyramid.html
  Great Pyramid of Khufu by unknown architect, at El Giza, Egypt, -2600 to -2480, in the Great Buildings Online.

• Harvard Magazine: Who Built the Pyramids?

  http://harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids.html
  Archaeologist Mark Lehner has discovered a city of pyramid workers. Illustrations include a conjectural drawing of the Giza plateau near the end of Khufu's reign.

• Pyramid of Man - The House of Going Forth by Day

  http://www.pyramidofman.com/
  An illustrated discussion by Vincent Brown on the architecture of Old Kingdom pyramids, with bibliography. The focus is on the depiction of the figure of Osiris in the substructure of Khufu's pyramid.

• Pyramids

  http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/pyramids/
  The British Museum provides a readable, illustrated introduction to the pyramids of Ancient Egypt. Includes an interactive reconstruction of Khufu's pyramid complex.

• Pyramids: The Inside Story

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/
  NOVA Online tours the Great Pyramid in QuickTime VR, explains how the pyramids were constructed and by whom. Also covers a 1997 excavation of the bakery that fed the pyramid builders.

• The Construction of the Pyramids

  http://www.touregypt.net/construction/
  An illustrated guide to the construction, architecture and the evolution of the design of the pyramids from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism.

• The Pyramids

  http://www.kingtutone.com/pyramids/
  An illustrated description of the evolution of the Egyptian pyramids and discussion of how they were built from King Tut One.com. Includes a virtual model of the Great Pyramid.

• The Pyramids of Egypt

  http://egyptphoto.ncf.ca/
  Photographs by Frank P. Roy together with brief information, and site plans of pyramid complexes. Also a timeline and pyramid statistics, with sources, a map of Egypt and uncritical discussion of the Orion theory.

• The Step Pyramid Complex of Djoser

  http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/zoser/zoser.html
  Clickable plan and images, provided by the University of Pennsylvania.

• The Upuaut Project

  http://www.cheops.org/
  Computer-based study combined with robotic investigation of the shafts in the Great Pyramid of Cheops by engineer Rudolf Gantenbrink. He argues that they were not air shafts.

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