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Foreign policy events XVII century.
The foreign policy of Mikhail and Alexei Romanov can be divided into two stages:
Istage (1613-1632) – the main task– make and maintain peace with Sweden and Poland in order to solve internal problems.
IIstage: (1632-1667) - task - to reconsider the difficult conditions of the Stolbovo peace and the Deulin truce, to return the lost lands.
Smolensk War1632-1634
War
with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
1654-1667
Russian-Swedish War 1656-1661
Russian-Turkish War 1676-1681
Causes of the war
During the Time of Troubles, Vasily Shuisky asked for help from Sweden in 1609 to fight against False DmitryII. After the fall of Shuisky, Swedish troops occupied Novgorod (1611).
Causes of the war:
1) plans of the Swedish king to become the Russian Tsar
2) capture and looting of Russian cities by the Swedes
In 1609, the Polish king began intervention against Russia. The Seven Boyars, who seized power, proclaimed the son of the Polish king Vladislav the Moscow Tsar. In 1612, the Poles were driven out of Moscow. Russia lost Smolensk and the Seversky lands.
Causes of the war: Polish troops plundered Russian lands. King Sigismund refused to recognize Mikhail Romanov as Russian Tsar. He himself was aiming for the Russian throne.
Russia sought to return Smolensk and the Seversky lands captured by Poland.
Reunification of Ukraine with Russia.
Reluctance of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich
share with Sweden the fruits of their victories in Poland.
In 1672, the Ottomans and Tatars (Ottoman Empire and Crimean Khanate) attacked Ukraine and Poland. Poland ceded the southern regions of Ukraine to them. The Ottomans could go to Left Bank Ukraine.
This alarmed Moscow.
Causes of the war:
Fears of loss of Left Bank Ukraine.
Main events
In 1613, the Swedes tried to capture Tikhvin.
In 1614, the Swedes captured the Gdov fortress.
In the summer and autumn of 1615, Pskov was besieged.
In 1617, Prince Vladislav began a campaign against Moscow.
On October 1, 1618, the Polish army attacked Moscow. It was forced to retreat.
1632 - march to Smolensk by the Russian army led by M.B. Shein.
Attack of the Crimean Tatars.
1633 siege of Smolensk.
Attack of the Crimean Tatars.
Battles with Polish troops. Encirclement of Russian troops.
In February 1634, Voivode Shein signed a truce.
September 1654 - Russian troops took Smolensk.
Entry into Lithuania, capture of Lithuanian cities. Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich had plans to conquer all of Poland.
But then Sweden entered the war against Poland, which disrupted the tsar’s plans. In 1656, a truce was signed with Poland.
In 1658, Polish-Lithuanian troops launched an offensive in Belarus.
In 1657, the new hetman of Ukraine, Vygovsky, announced the return of Ukraine to Polish rule. Together with the Crimean Tatars, he tried to capture Kyiv. At the beginning of 1660, the Polish king made peace with Sweden and threw all his strength into the fight against Russia. Moscow troops were driven out of Belarus and Lithuania.
At first the war was successful. But in the fall of 1656 they could not take Riga by storm.
At this time, hostilities resumed with Poland, which regained control over Belarus and Lithuania.
Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich decided to urgently make peace with Sweden.
In 1674, Moscow regiments and Cossacks of the “Russian” Hetman Samoilovich besieged the Chigirin fortress, but were forced to withdraw their troops.
In the summer of 1676, by order of the Tsar, the Moscow army occupied Chigirin, the capital of the “Turkish” Hetman Doroshenko.
1677, 1678 - Chigirinsky campaigns.
In the summer of 1677 - battle with the Turks and Crimean Tatars near Chigirin. The Turks retreated.
1678 - the Turkish army took Chigirin.
Results-conditions of peace treaties
The failure at Pskov forced the Swedish king to begin negotiations with the Moscow government.
1617 Peace of Stolbovo (eternal peace): Novgorod, Staraya Russa and Porkhov were returned to Russia for 20 thousand rubles. silver But some of the Russian cities remained with Sweden. Russia was completely cut off from the Baltic Sea.
Peace negotiations resumed. In December 1618, the Deulin Truce was concluded for a period of 14 years and 6 months. Smolensk and Seversk land went to Poland.
In the summer of 1634, the Peace of Polyanovsky was signed. Smolensk and the Chernigovo-Seversk land remained with Poland.
1664-1667 – peace negotiations between Russia and Poland. In 1667 the Treaty of Andrusovo was signed. Poland recognized Smolensk and Left Bank Ukraine, Kyiv as Russia. Zaporozhye was recognized as a joint possession of Poland and Russia.
1661 Peace of Cadiz between Sweden and Russia. All lands conquered by the Russians were returned to Sweden.
In January 1681, the Bakhchisarai Peace Treaty was concluded. Border between Ottoman Empire and Russia was established along the Dnieper.
Historical significance of the war
Peace in the Baltic states allowed us to fully concentrate on the fight against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The Deulin truce allowed Russia to focus on solving internal political problems
The Polish king Vladislav renounced his claims to the Russian throne.
Russia returned Smolensk.
The heroic defense of Chigirin saved Left Bank Ukraine from the Ottoman invasion.
Convinced of the high fighting qualities of the Russian troops, the Ottomans began peace negotiations with Russia.
Test.
1.What are the tasks in foreign policy stood before Russia
in the first years of the reign of the new Romanov dynasty?
1) Return lost during the Livonian War and
Time of Troubles territory;
2) Focus on solving acute internal political issues
problems
3) Achieve access to the Baltic Sea
2. Who commanded the Russian troops during the Smolensk War?
1) Yu.A. Dolgorukov 2) A.N. Trubetskoy 3) M.B. Shein
3. What was the consequence of the Deulin truce?
1) Russia's loss of Smolensk
2) Annexation of Courland to Russia
3) creation of an anti-Swedish coalition
4. What was the consequence of the Andrusovo truce?
1) Russia's loss of Smolensk
2) Accession of Left Bank Ukraine to Russia
3) Annexation of Azov to Russia
5. As a result of what war, the Polish king Wladislav renounced his claims to the Russian throne?
1) Smolensk War of 1632-1634.
2) Russian-Swedish War 1656-1661.
3) Russian-Turkish War 1676-1681.
6. As a result of what peace treaty did Sweden return Novgorod to Russia?
1) Peace of Cadiz 1661
2) Peace of Stolbov of 1617
3) Polyanovsky peace of 1634
7. What tasks in foreign policy did Russia face in 1632-1667?
1) Strengthen the position in the Black Sea region
2)Defeat the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
3) Reconsider the difficult conditions of the Deulin truce and the Stolbovo peace.
8.The reunification of Ukraine with Russia took place in
1)1634 2)1654 3)1667
Answers:
Answer no.
Pyramids Ancient Egypt: secrets, riddles, structure, architecture and internal structure of the pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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- Pyramids of Egypt - unique monument architecture, which has remained for centuries thanks to mysterious builders who managed to create structures so strong that no natural disasters or destructive wars could completely destroy these ancient Egyptian necropolises. The mystery of the pyramids has not yet been solved: it is impossible to speak with certainty either about the method of their construction, or about who acted as the main labor force. Now in Egypt there are about 118 pyramids, the largest of which were built during the reign of the III and IV dynasties of the pharaohs, that is, during the period of the so-called Old Kingdom. There are two types of pyramids: stepped and regular. The most ancient structures are considered to be of the first type. For example, the pyramid of Pharaoh Djoser, dating back to 2650 BC. e.
Necropolis translated from Greek means “ City of dead"and is a cemetery, usually located on the outskirts of the city. Egyptian pyramids - one of the varieties of this type of burial - served as monumental tombs for the pharaohs.
What do we know about the pyramids of Egypt?
They first learned about the pyramids thanks to the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, who lived in the 5th century BC. Traveling through Egypt, he was amazed famous pyramids Giza and immediately ranked one of them, dedicated to Cheops, among the seven wonders of the world. Moreover, it was Herodotus who created the legend about how these structures were built. As soon as the pyramids became the object of study by scientists, and this happened only two hundred years ago, this legend immediately became a historical truth, the authenticity of which was refuted not so long ago.
How the ancient pyramids were built
Not as much has reached our time intact as we would like. Numerous vandals robbed the pyramids for the treasures hidden inside, and local residents, who broke out stone blocks for the construction of palaces and mosques, destroyed part of the external and internal appearance. Thus, the Pink or Northern Pyramid from Dahshur (26 km south of Cairo) got its name because of the color of the stone, turning pink in the rays of the setting Sun. However, she wasn't always like this. Previously, the structure was covered with white limestone, which was entirely used for the construction of houses in Cairo.
For a long time it was believed that people who disturbed the peace of the pharaohs were doomed to death by the ancient gods. This was confirmed by the legend about the curse of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, according to which everyone who participated in the opening of the grave was supposed to die within a few years. And indeed, by 1929 (the tomb was opened in 1922), 22 people, one way or another involved in the autopsy, died. Whether the cause was the magic of Ancient Egypt or the poison placed in the sarcophagus during burial is anyone's guess.
It is believed that the famous Great Sphinx, which lies near the pyramids of Giza, is the guardian of the peace of the buried pharaohs.
Architecture and internal structure of the pyramids
The pyramids were only part of the ritual and burial complex. Next to each of them there were two temples, one nearby and the other much lower, so that its foot was washed by the waters of the Nile. The pyramids and temples were connected by alleys. An analogue of an alley of a similar plan can be seen in Luxor. The famous Luxor and Karnak temples were united by an avenue of sphinxes that has partially survived to this day. The pyramids of Giza practically did not preserve their temples and alleys: only the lower temple of Khafre, the pharaoh of the IV dynasty, remained, for a long time considered the temple of the Great Sphinx.
The internal structure of the pyramids implied the obligatory presence of a chamber where the sarcophagus with a mummy was located, and cut passages to this chamber. Sometimes religious texts were placed there. Thus, the interior of the pyramids in Saqqara, an Egyptian village 30 km from Cairo, contained the oldest works of funeral literature that have come down to us.
It is believed that the famous Great Sphinx, which lies near the pyramids of Giza, is the guardian of the peace of the buried pharaohs. The ancient Egyptian name of this first monumental sculpture in the world has not reached our time. Only the Greek version of the designation remains in history. Medieval Arabs called the Sphinx "the father of horror."
Modern Egyptologists suggest that the construction of the pyramids was carried out in several stages. Moreover, sometimes the size of the tomb during the creation process increased several times in comparison with the original project. The pharaohs built their tomb for many years. Only ground work and leveling the site for the future structure required at least ten. It took Pharaoh Cheops twenty years to build the largest pyramid to date. The workers who built the tombs were not slaves tortured to death. Moreover, archaeological excavations have shown that they were kept in fairly decent conditions, treated and fed normally. However, it is still unknown exactly how the huge stone blocks got to the very top. What is clear is that construction techniques have changed over time, and later structures are built differently than the first.
The Egyptian pyramids, built by aliens, according to supporters of this point of view, were a spaceport where their spaceships landed, including to refuel.
At the top of the Cheops pyramid there is now a flat area. According to scientists, there was a triangular pyramidion stone there, but perhaps it was not there at all. It’s hard to imagine that he disappeared so easily, because his weight was about one hundred tons.
Why don’t aliens now use the pyramids for their intended purpose? Experts agree that although extraterrestrial beings continue to visit our planet, they no longer need the pyramids. Due to technological progress, they now have other ships that do not need such a spaceport. Thus, Egyptian pyramids- this is a kind of outdated space equipment of aliens.
Signs have been preserved in the pyramids indicating the placement of special alien technology there. Thus, in the Great Gallery there are 28 recesses on the walls. One gets the impression that they housed something, perhaps some mechanisms and instruments, with the help of which, in particular, energy was generated for the functioning of ships.
Where did all these devices go? Most likely, they were destroyed by the aliens themselves. After the invention of more advanced means of transportation, the old technology was no longer needed.
In the middle of the pyramid, in the royal room, there is a large granite box. Perhaps alien fuel was stored in it. There is also an opinion that various chemical processes took place in this room; it is no coincidence that this room is decorated with granite, not limestone, because granite is much harder and more reliable. The room is completely sealed, except for two tunnels, which scientists believe are ventilation shafts. But is it?
The tunnels have entrance holes 20 x 20 cm, they are located on the walls at a distance of 1 m from the floor. Is it a coincidence that the top of the granite box is at the same height? Another oddity is that the tunnel walls are made of large stone slabs, which suggests that it was not water that was flowing through them, but something else. It can be concluded that fuel was supplied upward through the tunnels to refuel the ships.
At the bottom of the pyramid there is a room with an unleveled bottom. This is strange, because all the other rooms are perfectly aligned. Perhaps there was a warehouse in it, so they did not bring it to perfect condition. The room has a tunnel leading upstairs. Most likely, an elevator was moving through the tunnel, transporting substances from the warehouse.
And the aliens moved inside the pyramids using special elevators, like capsules along numerous tunnels. It’s not for nothing that all these tunnels have such precise dimensions.
How did aliens build the pyramids? It can be assumed that they moved the stone blocks not manually, but through the air using special rays that were generated by alien ships.
Why is information about aliens hidden?
There are two main reasons why information about alien civilization so carefully hidden.
The first reason is to prevent the population from panicking. It is known that the US government created a special project “Blue Book”. According to official information, he was supposed to study alien phenomena. In fact, he developed various ways to hide the fact of the existence of aliens from the inhabitants of the planet.
Another reason is that world powers are trying to outdo each other in the field of research into alien technology. By studying high-tech equipment, you can gain the opportunity to apply extraterrestrial knowledge to produce unsurpassed types of weapons.
Despite such secrecy, an increasing number of the planet's inhabitants believe that we are not alone in this Universe.
Version about the construction of pyramids by a highly developed civilization
This theory is also not officially recognized, but boils down to the fact that the pyramids were built by people.
Proponents of this theory believe that once upon a time there was already a civilization on Earth with a high level of consciousness and technology.
According to one theory, such a civilization were the Atlanteans (inhabitants of Atlantis), who built the pyramids or assisted the inhabitants of Egypt in this.
According to another version, the ancient inhabitants of Egypt were able to find and apply technologies from past civilizations to build pyramids. Again, historians know nothing about the existence of such civilizations.
Another theory is that the ancient Egyptians themselves stood at an extremely high level of development.
Conclusion
To summarize, we can come to the following conclusion: whoever built the pyramids of Egypt clearly had high level developments in technology. Only extraterrestrial civilization or as we usually call them - Aliens.
The times are long gone when the Egyptian pyramids amazed the observer with unprecedented grandeur and unsurpassed monumentality. About one thousand three hundred years ago, humanity learned to build bigger, higher, more massive and faster than the ancient Egyptians did. But still, for four thousand years, leadership in the field of construction remained with a long-vanished people...
Who, how and when built the Egyptian pyramids? Interest in the Pyramids of Giza has not waned for five millennia in a row. Egyptologists know the answers to most questions.
How and from what the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids – in many cases we only speculate, and among the hypotheses being propagated there is a lot of outright fantasy. Let's try to understand the history Egyptian pyramids without prejudice, mysticism and feigned mystery.
How many pyramids are there in Egypt?
The question is far from idle, given the length of the period of construction of the pyramids, the variety of materials used, the architectural features - and, of course, the preservation. According to various sources, the total number of Egyptian pyramids reaches 140, but many of them are difficult to identify.And if the pyramids of Giza are famous for their impressive size, perfect shape and good preservation, the pyramids of other ancient Egyptian tombs were less fortunate. Many of them - due to the fragility of the usual adobe clay brick at that time or the urgent need for building materials - collapsed completely or partially, and are more reminiscent of hills than pyramids.
So, in 2013, American archaeologist Angela Micol, examining photo maps high resolution, suggested that several hills on the territory of modern Egypt are nothing more than ancient pyramids, partly eroded under the influence of climatic factors, partly covered with sand and dust.
Inspired by a hint from overseas, Egyptian archaeologists undertook an expedition to the indicated heights. Cautious statements have appeared in the press regarding the fairness of the judgments of the American scientist, but the finds of Angela Micol have not yet been included in the official register of Egyptian pyramids - as well as the remains of 17 more pyramids, similarly discovered by Sarah Parcak from the University of Birmingham, Alabama.
Mastaba - the modest tomb of the pharaoh
The tradition of building pyramids as pharaonic tombs did not arise suddenly. The burials of the pharaohs of the first dynasty (there are more than 30 dynasties in total) were arranged in relatively small buildings that looked like a cut-off hill or a tetrahedral pyramid with a cut-off top and a rectangular base.The imperfection of the then construction technologies forced the Egyptians to create buildings with inclined edges of the outer walls. The intuitive assimilation of the artificial structure to a natural embankment made of stone ensured the stability of the erected structure no worse than that of a conical pile of debris of different sizes at the foot of the mountain.
In Arab Egypt, the first tombs of the pharaohs were called “mastaba”, which means “stool” in Arabic.
A bench with a wicker seat, created in Ancient Egypt. The newcomer Arabs called the bench a “mastaba.” The same name was assigned to the squat tombs, the predecessors of the pyramids.
By architectural appearance The mastaba replicates a slightly expanded ancient Egyptian residential building, and there is not a drop of holiness in the purely utilitarian building. So it is not surprising that every new ruler sought to build his mastaba higher than any buildings in the area, and most importantly, higher than the tomb of his predecessor. Delusions of grandeur are so characteristic of leaders!
The logical result of the growth of the mastaba was a geometrically correct pyramid, but it was not possible to achieve the desired shape immediately.
Tomb of Djoser - the first Egyptian pyramid
Thirty kilometers south of Cairo is the village of Saqqara. Saqqara is the resting place of the pharaohs of the III-IV dynasty. The oldest surviving Egyptian pyramid, the Pyramid of Djoser, is located here.Imhotep - a brave innovator
According to information collected by historians, Imhotep, the main architect of the project, initially planned to build an ordinary mastaba. However, the idea of building a multi-tiered tomb seemed much more fruitful to both the architect and the customer. Therefore, already during the construction process, the project was changed. The triple superstructure of a smaller mastaba over a larger one resulted in a forty-meter four-tier pyramid with a rectangular base.Realizing that adobe clay brick (in Russian tradition the material is known as “adobe”) was not strong enough to create a high-rise structure, Imhotep ordered the use of limestone blocks to construct the tomb body.
Ingenious technology for constructing Djoser's pyramid
for construction it was mined in a quarry nearby. The dimensions and shape of the stone blocks were not strictly observed, but they allowed masonry with ligation: three longitudinally oriented blocks were replaced by two transverse ones - and so on. The mass of a single block did not exceed the “carrying capacity” of a strong porter.A thick clay composition was used as a binding solution, designed not so much to hold the blocks together as to fill the voids. Nature itself could have suggested the idea of such a building material to Imhotep. Egyptians traveling around the surrounding world probably came across objects formed by mudflows and quickly turning into dense and durable material.
The clay was dug in the Nile Valley, soaked and mixed with some sand (to prevent cracking during the drying process). The wall stone was laid at an angle inside the building so that the wall line deviated from the vertical by 15˚. Thus, the walls of each of the tiers of the tomb formed an angle of 75˚ with the conventional plane of the firmament.
The critical components of the internal structures of Djoser's pyramid were made of two-ton blocks, delivered from afar by water, and coarsely cut limestone. The cementing gypsum mortar, used by the Egyptians more often than lime, held the elements together only in some places. In particular, the blue tiles in the lining of the interior of the tomb were held on the walls thanks to gypsum binders.
Imhotep - the deified pioneer of perestroika
Having erected a four-tiered pyramid, inspired by the success, Imhotep proposed not to stop construction and increase the number of tiers to six while simultaneously increasing total area pyramids. For the external cladding of the building it was planned to use white limestone from the Tursky quarry with eastern shore Nila.The pharaoh's consent was not long in coming. The uninterrupted continuation of work allowed the outstanding architect of Ancient Egypt to increase the height of the pyramid to 62 meters. Becoming six-tiered in 2649 BC, the pyramid of Djoser crowned huge complex ritual buildings and for a long time became a record building in Egypt and the entire world of that time.
Step pyramid of Djoser, built under the leadership of the brilliant Imhotep. Only a pharaoh could climb the giant steps into the sky...
It is estimated that 850 thousand tons of limestone were spent on the construction of the Djoser pyramid. According to the unanimous opinion of the builders of our time, there are no technological mysteries in the construction of the first Egyptian pyramid. However, Imhotep's contemporaries treated the outstanding architect with much greater reverence. After his death, the architect, engineer and scientist Imhotep was deified, and the Egyptian pyramids, according to the behest of the founder, were built in steps for a long time.
The Pyramids of Giza are the center of secrets and mysteries
There are quite a lot of stepped and multi-tiered pyramids and pyramids built according to the precepts of the great Imhotep in Egypt. But only the Egyptian pyramids of the regular tetrahedral shape are considered wonders of the world, and not all of them, but only those that stand in Giza.The pyramids of Cheops, Khafre and Mikerin represent the pinnacle of the building art of Ancient Egypt. The studies carried out did not provide a clear and reliable picture of the stages and methods of construction. Of the historical documents, the description of Herodotus is considered the most detailed - however, we must remember that Herodotus made his notes 2000 years after the construction of the Cheops pyramid...
Hemiun – hero of pyramid-building work
The task assigned to Hemiun, a relative of the pharaoh and, concurrently, the chief administrator of the state, was difficult. On a rocky square base it was necessary to build a pyramid of the correct geometric shape and standard aesthetic qualities. The structure, of course, had to be higher than the pyramids of previous pharaohs and, preferably, remain unsurpassed in the future.
Hemiun, high-born architect of the Cheops pyramid, an outstanding architect and organizer.
Perhaps the task was posed in some other way - but it doesn’t matter. Hemiun managed to create a pyramid that contained millions of tons of natural stone, rose almost to the skies (147 meters in height), concealed several secret rooms, and amazed (and amazes) the observer with the perfection of its forms and the grandeur of the idea.
The first secret plus the main secret
How the construction was carried out is not described anywhere. Not a single papyrus was found in which not only the construction technology of Hemiun was revealed, but even the pyramid of Cheops was simply mentioned!This is the first mystery of the main Egyptian pyramid. However, there may be several answers:
- a) researchers were simply unlucky to find required document;
- b) there was a ban on documenting and disclosing methods for constructing the pyramid;
- c) design documentation was not drawn up, construction recording was not carried out - as unnecessary.
How the greatest of the Egyptian pyramids was built
Most of the Cheops pyramid is made of blocks of yellow-gray limestone, a relatively loose material, but quite strong. Since the blocks were cut down in different sizes, it would be logical, when preparing materials at a construction site, to arrange the stones so that the largest and heaviest ones at the bottom were spent on the construction of the lower tiers of the masonry, and less massive stones were intended for the upper tiers.
The blocks intended for the construction of the Cheops pyramid were cut out of a rock monolith.
Egyptian builders did just that. The limestone blocks of the pyramid are smaller the closer to the top they lie. Which, by the way, refutes the fashionable theory about building a structure from concrete blocks.
Is the concrete idea false?
It is indeed easier to transport buckets of thick mortar to the upper floors of a construction site, but why change the formwork standard from tier to tier? Artificial building stone, as a rule, has standardized dimensions, while the blocks of the Cheops pyramid are far from standard.The time factor is also important. Curing of concrete requires the cast part to rest for a long time. Initial setting is not equivalent to full strength gain. A multi-ton load cannot be immediately piled on a freshly cast and already hardened stone. You can speed up the hardening of the casting with organic additives - at least egg white - but then the mountain of shells will exceed the size of the pyramid. Is such a monument acceptable to the pharaoh?
The production of binder for concrete requires high-temperature dehydration of the raw material - in the case of Ancient Egypt. The country's resources made it possible to produce a certain amount of gypsum mortar painlessly, but not the millions of cubic meters required for a complete transition to artificial building stone! There simply wasn’t that much firewood in the state!
Concrete is not only a binder, it is also a mineral filler of several fractions. Modern concrete is created from cement mortar, sand and crushed granite. The blocks of the Egyptian pyramids are entirely limestone. One can, of course, imagine how thousands of slaves spend years crushing natural limestone to obtain crumbs, other thousands drag stretchers with limestone chips to construction sites, still others carry water in wineskins, and still others trample wet concrete - because without compaction it will turn out to be fragile.
But isn't it easier to carve ready-made blocks from stone? Moreover, all qualified mineralogists are unanimous in their assessment of the main material of the Cheops pyramid and consider it natural limestone.
However, individual structural elements of the pyramids could indeed be made of artificial stone. But not the most responsible and loaded with astronomical masses of overlying materials.
The granite mystery of the Cheops pyramid
Adherents of secret knowledge talk about the impossibility of manufacturing, processing and delivering granite construction parts without the use of steel tools and abrasives of a hardness level.Meanwhile, granite columns, obelisks and other “megaliths” in Ancient Egypt were produced without much difficulty. Our French contemporaries reproduced all stages of granite mining and processing, and were quite satisfied with the experience gained.
To break off a large workpiece from a natural massif, the following method was used.
- 1. Along the contour of the proposed workpiece, a low fireplace was built from clay bricks.
- 2. Firewood was loaded into the hearth and a fire was lit. Hot coals heated the underlying granite to a shallow depth.
- 3. Water was poured onto the heated granite. The stone was cracking.
- 4. After removing the brick, ash and exfoliated rock, the heating zone was subjected to impact treatment with dolerite (dolerite is a type) hammers. As a result, a groove 10–15 cm deep was formed in the monolithic granite massif.
- 5. To deepen the contour groove, the operation was repeated.
Technique self made with a rounded dolerite hammer suggests the endurance and perseverance of the performer. An hour-long (even not very dexterous) beating of dolerite on granite allows you to remove a layer 6–8 mm thick over an area of several square decimeters.
The design of a dolerite hammer is extremely simple.
A dolerite concretion split in half served as the main tool for grinding granite. The abundance of dolerite in the eastern regions of Egypt allowed ancient craftsmen to use this hard stone in unlimited quantities.
Lifting heavy objects without a crane
Herodotus writes that lifting the stone upward was carried out by simple wooden devices such as a well crane. The carrying capacity of such devices is sufficient for two-ton cargo (the average volume of a lime block of the Cheops pyramid is 850 - 1000 liters, the density of limestone is 2000 kg per cubic meter). But how were the much more massive structural elements installed? In particular, the pyramidion, the monolithic top of the pyramid weighing 15 tons?Modern inventors talk about the possibility of covering a stone product with three-dimensional wooden structures that bring the shape of the packaged part closer to a cylinder. Such containers really make transportation easier, but require a solid road.
Inclined ramp or spiral road?
How is a waste heap - a cone-shaped dump of waste rock - constructed? First, supports are installed, and an inclined rail track is placed on them. Cars with bulk mass are driven onto the rails and unloaded to the side. As the dump grows, the road lengthens. The end result is an artificial mountain with steep slopes and a long, gentle embankment with rails from the flat bottom to the very top.
Inclined ramp for delivering materials directly to the construction site.
Researchers believe that this is how access roads to the Egyptian pyramids were built. An extendable inclined (7˚-8˚) ramp, made of bulk materials, compacted and reinforced with imported timber, could really help deliver massive stone blocks to their installation site.
However, the volume of earthworks in this case turns out to be comparable to the volume of the entire construction, and the pace of work is limited by the frequency of reconstruction of the transport route. The bulk spiral road laid around the pyramid makes it impossible to check the geometry of the edges and faces of the entire structure.
It would be another matter, suggested the French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin, if the spiral road was laid in the body of the pyramid along its outer edges. You can walk along such a road like a gentle staircase, dragging limestone blocks up along the way. True, this path is replete with right-angle turns. But if you make open areas with simple lifts at turning points, the difficulties will disappear.
In a spiral - to the heavens! They say architects Tower of Babel adopted the experience of constructing the Egyptian pyramids and likened the design of their high-rise creation to a growing spiral. But the material let us down and something went wrong with mutual understanding...
Houdin's hypothesis is flawed in many respects. However, turning platforms were discovered in the corners of the structure, as well as some inclined passages along the perimeter of the pyramid. However, the Egyptian authorities have not yet given permission for large-scale hardware research of the historical structure.
Final process reconstruction
A generally reconstructed picture of the construction of the Cheops pyramid looks like this:- - the most massive parts of the base of the pyramid and the interior of the tomb were delivered to the installation site along surface roads and a low bulk ramp;
- - the blocks composing the body of the pyramid rose along spiral scaffolding built outside;
- - a white limestone top - pyramidion - was installed immediately after the completion of the masonry;
- - facing blocks of white limestone, in cross-section representing a right-angled triangle, were laid from top to bottom, flush with the edges of the pyramidion.
And although individual details of the construction are not fully clarified, the overall picture is quite clear and plausible. However, the secrets of the Egyptian pyramids lay not only in the design and construction of Cyclopean structures.
"Unsolved" secrets of the Egyptian pyramids
The exploration of the Cheops pyramid, undertaken by treasure-hungry humanity over the past two thousand years, turned out to be very traumatic for the historical structure. Partly for this reason, and partly because of the high tourism potential, permission for scientific research in Giza is very difficult to obtain.As a result, today scientists do not have a complete plan of the cavities and rooms of the Cheops pyramid - which is why assumptions about the purpose of rooms, corridors and channels are based on insufficient information.
This situation gives food for idle thoughts about the presence of secret treasuries under the Egyptian pyramids and the Sphinx. The tabloid press is all about the idea of the hiddenness of samples of ancient knowledge, stored either under the paws of the Sphinx, or under the burial chamber of Khufu, or even deeper.
However, historians and archaeologists do not expect any special revelations from hypothetical treasuries. Yes, if repositories that were not looted in the past are discovered, museum collections around the world will be significantly replenished with works of ancient Egyptian art - but one cannot expect advanced technologies among the surviving artifacts. Alas…
Is the pyramid a working device?
The idea that each individual pyramid, and especially the largest and most beautiful pyramid of Cheops, is not just a monument and tomb, but a kind of tool for interacting with secret forces, has tormented humanity for four and a half thousand years.Echoes of the excitement that arose during the perestroika years regarding the miraculous properties of pyramidal structures are still alive. Allegedly, the blades in them self-sharpen, bacteria self-destruct, water self-sanctifies - and in large pyramids, plus time slows down, organisms become younger and fools become wiser.
The Cheops Pyramid is 4600 years old, but it still works? Isn't it time for the old lady to retire?
The experiments are still ongoing, but the statistics of the results are disappointing. Nothing special happens either in the ancient Egyptian pyramids or in their modern counterparts.
“In addition,” object the esotericists, “that contact is made with the higher mind!”
The influence of the Egyptian pyramids on the mind
Initiates write: whoever lies down in the sarcophagus of the Cheops pyramid and concentrates, voices become audible, colorful pictures are visible, the complexities of the structure of the universe are understood - and the future is also revealed. So Napolen, after spending the night in the sarcophagus, came out pale, was silent about his experience, and only in exile on the island of St. Helena hinted that he had seen his own fall...True, psychiatrists, having learned about the voices and visions, begin to nervously trample and stroke bags of medicine. Psychologists talk about the similarity of individual reactions to darkness, silence and complete solitude. To save money, they say, instead of a sarcophagus, you can lie down in a wooden box with a lid, and instead of an Egyptian pyramid, use any dungeon - even a shallow hole.
The sum of sensations and thoughts that arise in the subjects is typical. In such solitude, every person thinks about the transience of life, the vanity of all things and the inevitability of the end. Pyramids have nothing to do with it!
Astronomical factor
Belgian Robert Bauvel, born and lived for a long time in Egyptian Alexandria, was not the first person to notice the similarity between the locations of the pyramids at Giza and the stars in Orion's Belt. However, he was the first to speak out loudly and publicly about the similarity.The check showed that the coincidence of directions and proportions is very conditional. Defending his point of view, Bauval suggested: the position of the pyramids corresponds to the picture of the starry sky during the third dynasty of the pharaohs.
The development of computer technology has made it possible to restore the position of stars in the past. The simulated picture of the starry sky of 2500 BC turned out to be close to the location of the pyramids at Giza, but only approximately...
Further research led astronomers to the conclusion: the relative position of the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure (Cheops, Khafre and Mikerin) fully corresponds to the location of Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintak (stars of the “Orion’s Belt” asterism) in 10500 BC.
Idle thinkers immediately came to the conclusion that the initial marking of the construction site was completed in 10500, and they decided to postpone the actual construction for 8 thousand years.
Moreover! At the beginning, namely 14 thousand years before the birth of Christ, on the site of the future Giza and all its tombs there was a pyramid - to all pyramids a pyramid, the size of a real mountain! True, the ancestor of the pyramids was monolithic and cracked during the earthquake. It was decided to demolish the colossus, and in its place, after cleaning up the debris, to build a new pyramidal complex.
The thinkers do not say who and why made such unexpected decisions.
Numerological heresy of the Cheops pyramid
Heading to Egypt, Napoleon, as is known, included more than one and a half hundred scientists in his detachment. Bored during the transition, inquisitive scientists pounced on the Egyptian pyramids like a hungry dog on a bone. All available space was measured and measured, including each of the pyramids and the Sphinx.The data obtained became the subject of scientific discussions that continue to this day. Over two hundred years of speculation, particularly advanced experts have established a relationship between the linear parameters of the Cheops pyramid and:
- - the size of the Earth and the Solar system;
- - the number "pi";
- - past and future events;
- - physical constants that determine the balance of interaction of forces in the Universe.
Hey, psychiatrists!..
So, does this mean that there are no secrets in the Egyptian pyramids?
There are still many secrets in Egyptology. However, the Egyptian pyramids have been studied very thoroughly, although not completely. There are a number of ambiguities in the unhurried existence of the pyramids that are visible to specialists. For example, did the visible deflection of the faces of the Cheops pyramid arise as a result of unexpected deformation of materials or as a result of architectural calculations?So far, there is no clear picture of the complex of technologies used almost 5,000 years ago. It is not clear why the Pyramid of Cheops, the most monumental of all the monuments of Ancient Egypt, is devoid of wall inscriptions and images. There is no confidence in understanding the purpose of the discovered objects, premises, buildings...
It is important, however, that only those studies of the Egyptian pyramids that are conducted within the framework of materialist theory become fruitful. The search for the extraordinary forces that took part in the creation of the Egyptian pyramids is fantastically funny - that’s all.
Pyramid of Pharaoh Khufu (in the Greek version Cheops), or Great Pyramid- the greatest of the Egyptian pyramids, the oldest of the seven wonders of the world of antiquity and the only one of them that has survived to our time. Over four thousand For years the pyramid was the largest building in the world.
The Pyramid of Cheops is located in the far suburb of Cairo, Giza. Nearby there are two more pyramids of the pharaohs Khafre and Menkaure (Khefre and Mikerin), according to ancient historians, the sons and successors of Khufu. These are the three most great pyramids Egypt.
Following ancient authors, most modern historians consider the pyramids to be funerary structures of ancient Egyptian monarchs. Some scientists believe that these were astronomical observatories. There is no direct evidence that pharaohs were buried in the pyramids, but other versions of their purpose are less convincing.
When was the Cheops pyramid built?
Based on ancient “royal lists”, it has been established that Cheops reigned around 2585-2566. BC. Construction of the "Sacred Height" lasted 20 years and ended after the death of Khufu, around 2560 BC.Other versions of the construction dates, based on astronomical methods, give dates from 2720 to 2577. BC. Radiocarbon dating shows a scatter of 170 years, from 2850 to 2680. BC.
There are also exotic opinions expressed by supporters of theories of aliens visiting the Earth, the existence of ancient civilizations, or adherents of occult movements. They determine the age of the Cheops pyramid from 6-7 to tens of thousands of years.
How the pyramid was built
The Pyramid of Cheops is still the largest stone building on the planet. Its height is 137 m, the length of the base side is 230.38 m, the angle of inclination of the edge is 51°50", the total volume is about 2.5 million cubic meters. At the time of completion, the height was 9.5 m higher, and the base side was 2 m longer, however, over the past centuries, almost all of the cladding of the pyramid was dismantled and they did their job. natural factors– temperature changes and desert winds carrying clouds of sand.
Ancient Greek historians reported that the construction involved the labor of millions of slaves. Modern researchers believe that with the correct organization of work and engineering, the Egyptians would have had enough tens of thousands of workers to build it. Temporary workers were hired to transport materials, the number of which, according to Herodotus, reached 100 thousand. Modern scientists fully agree with this, as well as with the reality of a 20-year construction period.
The construction of the pyramid was supervised by the head of the royal works, Hemiun. Hemiun's tomb is located next to his creation, and a statue of the architect was discovered in it.
The main material for the construction was gray limestone, which was cut down in nearby quarries or brought from the other bank of the Nile. The pyramid was lined with light sandstone, which is why it literally shone in the sunlight. For interior decoration, granite was used, which was delivered a thousand kilometers away, from the area of present-day Aswan. The structure was crowned with a hewn gilded granite block - a pyramidion.
In total, the construction of the pyramid took about 2.3 million limestone blocks and 115 thousand facing slabs. The total weight of the building, according to modern estimates, is almost 6 million tons.
The sizes of the blocks vary. The largest ones are placed at the base, their height is one and a half meters. The blocks are smaller the higher they are located. The height of the block at the top is 55 cm. The length of the facing slabs ranged from 1.5 to 0.75 m.
The work of the pyramid builders was extremely hard. A lot of time and effort required quarrying stone, cutting blocks and adjusting them to the required size. In those days, neither iron nor bronze was known in Egypt. The tools were made of relatively soft copper, so they were quickly ground down and were very expensive. Tools made of flint - saws, drills, hammers - were widely used. Many of them were found during excavations.
The materials were delivered by river, and the stone was transported to the construction site on wooden sleds or rollers. It was hellish work, because the average weight of one block is 2.5 tons, and some of them weighed up to 50 tons.
A variety of devices were used to lift and install the monoliths, and inclined embankments were erected to drag up the most massive elements that make up the lower rows. Images of construction work have been found in a number of Egyptian temples and tombs.
Recently, an original theory has emerged regarding the construction methods of the Egyptians. Scientists who examined the microstructure of the blocks in order to establish their origin discovered foreign inclusions. According to experts, these are the remains of animal hair and human hair, from which scientists concluded that the limestone at the mining sites was crushed and delivered in crushed form to the construction site. Directly at the laying site, blocks were made from the limestone mass, which were thus a semblance of modern concrete structures, and the traces of tools on the blocks are actually the imprints of the formwork.
Be that as it may, the construction was completed, and the grandiose dimensions of the pyramid fully justify supporters of the theories of Atlanteans and aliens who do not believe in the possibilities of human genius.
What's inside the pyramid
The entrance to the pyramid was made at a height of almost 16 meters in the form of an arch made of granite slabs. It was later sealed with granite plug and covered with cladding. The current entrance, 10 meters below, was made in 831 by order of Caliph Al-Mamun, who hoped to find gold here, but did not find anything valuable.
The main rooms are the Pharaoh's chamber, the queen's chamber, the Great Gallery and the underground chamber. The passage made by Al-Mamun leads to a 105-meter inclined corridor, ending in a chamber carved into the rock below the base of the pyramid. Its dimensions are 14x8 m, height 3.5 m. Work here was not completed for unknown reasons.
At 18 meters from the entrance, an ascending corridor 40 meters long, ending in the Great Gallery, separates from the descending corridor. The Gallery itself is a high (8.5 m) tunnel 46.6 m long, leading to the Pharaoh's chamber. The corridor to the queen's chamber branches off from the Gallery at its very beginning. A rectangular ditch, 60 cm deep and 1 m wide, has been punched into the floor of the Gallery; its purpose is unknown.
The length of the pharaoh's chamber is 10.5 m, width 5.4, height 5.84 m. It is lined with black granite slabs. There is an empty granite sarcophagus here. The queen's chamber is more modest - 5.76 x 5.23 x 6.26 m.
Channels 20-25 cm wide lead from the burial chambers to the surface of the pyramid. The channels of the king’s chamber open at one end into the room, and at the other onto the surface of the pyramid. The channels of the queen's chamber begin 13 cm from the wall and do not reach 12 m to the surface, and both ends of the channels are closed with stone doors with handles. It is assumed that the channels were made for ventilation of the premises during work. Another version, associated with the beliefs of the Egyptians, claims that this is the path to the afterlife that the souls of the deceased had to go through.
No less mysterious is another small room, the Grotto, to which an almost vertical passage leads from the beginning of the Great Gallery. The grotto is located at the junction of the base of the pyramid and the hill on which it stands. The walls of the Grotto are reinforced with rather roughly processed stone. It is assumed that this is part of some structure more ancient than the pyramid.
It is necessary to mention one discovery related to the pyramid. In 1954, two stone-lined pits were discovered near the southern edge, in which there were pharaoh's boats made of Lebanese cedar. One of the rooks has been restored and is now in a special pavilion next to the pyramid. Its length is 43.5 m, width 5.6 m.
The study of the Cheops pyramid continues. Research using the latest methods used in exploration of the earth's interior shows with a high degree of probability the existence of unknown caverns inside the pyramid. So it is quite possible that scientists can expect new interesting finds and discoveries.
In the meantime, the Great Pyramid keeps its secrets, standing proudly in the middle of the desert, just like thousands of years ago. After all, as the ancient Arabic proverb states, everything in the world is afraid of time, but time is afraid of the pyramids.
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It’s definitely worth deciding on this trip, if only out of curiosity. After all, the Pyramid of Djoser is recognized as the oldest surviving Egyptian pyramid. Yes, yes, this is the first pyramid of Egypt, and it was built in honor of the ruler Djoser by the architect and close associate of the pharaoh Imhotep.