Recently, I talked about King Tut. I thought it would be a nice follow up to write about Egypt again. This time, I’m going to write about pyramid building. Pyramid building was hard, dangerous work.
Imagine, if your a poor farmer, working for the rich. You just finished a year of hard work, and now it’s time for you to rest. However, you soon receive a request from the government officials to work on the Pharaoh’s pyramid.
There are 3 types of jobs in pyramid building, construction, design, and mining. To be a designer, you have to get every design correct. If you are talented with tools, then you are sent to be a miner, which is dangerous. If you weren’t talented, then you did the most common type of job: the building. You and a group of 20 heave blocks onto the pyramids. Every 2 minutes, 30 groups of 20 are required to bring a heavy stone block up.
If you are a miner, you go to the stone quarries. This is where stone is provided for the core of the pyramid. You use a wooden mallet, a hammer, and chisels made of copper to get the stone out. This is a grim job, and you have a high chance of being injured.
The least dangerous job is to design inside the pyramid. It is lit by candlelight, and is rather spooky. You have to get every detail correct, otherwise, you’ll be punished. You also have to use the correct design, because people think that the usual is better.
That’s what a pyramid builder did in ancient times. Even if they were done, they’d soon have to start working again, because of the death of the pharaoh. The next pharaoh always wanted to have his pyramid started up quickly, in case he died quickly.
Written by Dz
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