The Step Pyramid

Here is most of our tour group though there are people walking through as this is the entrance to the step pyramid and it is a long narrow temple.











And there it is the Step pyramid the first ever type of pyramid. This was the beginnings of the pyramids, first there were the step pyramids followed by the bent pyramids where the sides were at two different angles as it was found that once the walls of the pyramids got to a certain height they collapsed so the walls were built at a steep lever to start with and then the top was built at a lower degree hence they then looked bent. Finally came the Great Pyramids we now know.



This is quite cool, ever wondered how the Egyptians got things in to the bottom of tombs and things? What they did was dug two holes next to each other and linked them together with a tunnel at the bottom and then they would put the treasures they wanted kept down the bottom in a chamber off the tunnel and then remove the sand from one of the holes and the level of the sand would drop and the treasures, which would be big things that are hard to move, would slowly sink to the bottom of the hole with no damage done to it. Once all the treasures are at the bottom they are moved into the chamber and they both holes are fulled up. Ingenious huh?







Another view of the Pyramid with the cobra of the north. This is because originally Egypt was two kingdoms, the red cobra crown of Lower Egypt (north, lower Egypt as it was away from the start of the Nile) and the white conical crown of Upper Egypt (south, where the Nile was said to originate).









Look ancient graffiti, I don't know if you can see this that clearly but it was quite strange as in quite a few temples there was graffiti dating back to before the time of Christ. How weird is that!