When we talk about Egypt, the pyramids, those monuments that have aroused so much interest and admiration throughout history, and that since More than 4,500 years ago they have kept information that today continues to fill their majestic existence with mystery, and that has given reasons to archaeologists, scientists and all kinds of researchers, including historians and writers, to investigate, suppose and present evidence about how they were built and what they contain.
So if you decide to write down Egypt on the list of countries you will visit, surely you will not regret it, and if you are a lover of history and culture and practice this type of tourism, you will find in every corner, in every city, details that will transport you in time as if you are living another life. Therefore, the importance of learning about issues that have set the tone in history, so that you travel with certain information and motivate yourself to undertake that wonderful adventure at some point in your life.
In this context, we must begin by saying that, according to the legends, the pyramids initially arose in Egypt because it was a distinctive way of the solar religion of the pharaohs, where Ra or God of the Sun, represented the father of all the pharaohs, creating himself from a pyramid-shaped mound on Earth, which symbolized the rays of the star king.
In this way, the construction of the great pyramids began to basically serve as a tomb for the Egyptian pharaohs, who at the time of death were taken to these pyramids to be mummified and deposited there along with their treasures and personal belongings.
This is how, adorning the landscape that surrounds the great Nile River, these majestic constructions rise that seem gifts from the gods, erected on the desert sand, and although the most famous and well-known are the Pyramids of Gizeh, located on the outskirts of the current city of “Cairo”, it is said that throughout Egypt there are more than 100 pyramids of different sizes, which contain the tombs of the pharaohs and the important personalities of their court.
We must clarify that the triad of pyramids that make up the Pyramids of Gizeh are the tombs of the pharaohs Cheops, Kefren and Micerinos, who ordered their construction in order to achieve immortality, highlighting the Great Pyramid as the largest and most emblematic of them. , and which houses the tomb of Cheops, within some 2,300,000 superimposed stone blocks to reach some 146 meters, which has earned it to be considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, being the only one of the three that has It still stands to this day.
Next to the Great Pyramid of Cheops is the pyramid of Khafre, son of Cheops, which was built by this pharaoh, on higher ground that at first glance gives it a height greater than that of Cheops, so it is mistakenly for a period of time it had the name of «Great Pyramid», but it measures a few meters less than that of Cheops, his father, reaching 143 meters.
Finally, there is the smallest of the Egyptian Pyramids, which was made in honor of Pharaoh Micerinos, which, with its 65 meters high, has been named the «divine pyramid» and for some time was covered with pink marble. , and is surrounded by the pyramids of the queens, which are small constructions dedicated to housing the tombs of the consorts of these pharaohs.
Another majestic monument is located near these three pyramids, guarding them, the well-known Sphinx, which is 20 meters high, 14 meters wide and 70 meters long, and was built to represent the pharaoh Cheops, whose nose was destroyed at early 19th century, due to a cannon shot during Napoleon Bonaparte’s violent entry into Egypt.
Now, the mystery of the construction of the pyramids of Egypt, is increasing when archaeological and scientific studies are undertaken that show the little probability that one hundred thousand men took 20 years to build the great pyramid, since according to archaeological data, to carry out such a feat that number of men working constantly, it should take only three minutes to place, locate, orient, polish and engrave without using pulleys (because they did not exist) each block that weighed between 2 and 80 tons, in addition to the fact that the pyramid has almost 3 million blocks perfectly meshed with each other.
Other questions arise that increase the mystery: how did these men manage to transport the immense stone blocks from the Aswanque quarries? It should be noted that these quarries are about 1,000 kilometers away, in addition to how they cut granite blocks, at a time when iron was unknown and they only used simple copper tools. Worse still, how these 80-ton blocks climbed to the top of the pyramid that eventually reached 148 meters.
These are feats that today also seem impossible to accomplish and they did it 4500 years ago, without having technology, without knowing iron, without scientific knowledge. So I ask you, could it be that the gods were those extraterrestrial beings that today are said to visit Earth? Could it be that much of the technology we have today comes from aliens? Why, if it is possible that it was built by men, has this thesis not yet been proven?
As well as these, there are more questions that have been formulated throughout history, generating many mysteries around the construction of the pyramids, one of them being the exact knowledge that the Dogons had, an Egyptian tribe, anchored in prehistory, that tells a legend that maintains that ten thousand years ago, a strange ark of light came from the sky, which suggests the arrival of extraterrestrials, which gives strength to the thesis that these monuments were built by them, or with the help from them, considering that at the time there was no technology to transport such heavy blocks from such a far distance, much less to be placed the way they are.
Continuing with the theme of the Dogon, it is interesting to know that, according to them, beings descended from this ark of light whose shape was half fish, half man and were called instructors who said they came from a star called Potoolo (Sirius B). In addition, they reported that, in that star system, there was a great star called Digitaria (Sirius A) and that Potoolo rotated around Digitaria in a time of 50 years.
The curious thing is that currently, according to scientific evidence, the Dogons were right, and they knew exactly the Sirius binary star system, which was discovered for the first time in the year 1824, being able to be observed with a telescope in the year 1864. And even more surprising is that it was found in 1972 that the star Sirius B has a period of 50 years around Sirius A. All this gives us the opportunity to ask ourselves how a tribe anchored in the past such exact knowledge that is currently being discovered through modern technology?
This is how questions have been growing about «The Great Pyramid of Giza», that lavish monument that was built in the time of Pharaoh Cheops around the year 2500 BC, with its 146 meters high, which is the height of a modern 40-story building, which lead to a series of questions such as the one made by Robert Bauval, an Anglo-Egyptian engineer, who in 1994 noticed something that cannot be the work of chance, since the three great pyramids of Giza were distributed over the desert in an identical way as were the three stars of the belt of the constellation of Orion
Likewise, this remarkable engineer, while analyzing the texts of the pyramids, discovered that for the ancient Egyptians, the constellation of Orion was the celestial equivalent of the god Osiris, and his belt was what the Egyptians called the Duat, a kind of door through the one that the soul of the pharaoh had to pass to reach the afterlife or Amenti.
To end this interesting story about the pyramids of Egypt, which will surely arouse the interest of those tourists who love history and culture, the mystery that is hidden in the pyramids is even greater, when we verify that some authors maintain that in the Great Pyramid Surprising data such as: the exact distance between our planet and the Sun, the measurement of the solar year, the sidereal year and the anomalistic year are recorded.
Likewise, according to specialists in the subject, there is exact information on the laws of variation of the constant of gravity on the surface of the Earth and that of the periodic variations of the seasons and the frequency of earthquakes, the laws of precession of the equinoxes and the variation of the length of the perihelion, among many other important data for man.
On the other hand, according to the English mathematician, bookseller and astronomer John Taylor, one of the most renowned scholars of the pyramids, he showed that the Great Pyramid contains the number PI -3.14159265-, which is obtained by dividing the perimeter of its base times twice the height of the monument –230.347 x 4:146.61 x 2– resulting in exactly 3.1423.
In short, the pyramids hide many mysteries, from their construction to the information they keep inside, so here we only present a mouth-opener on this topic that has many nuances, so we invite you to continue researching on the subject, and on All pack your bags to visit these majestic monuments in Egypt.