#bent pyramid

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The Collapsed, Bent and Red Pyramids of Dahshur. Guest appearance by Ra.

Following the creation of Djoser's step pyramid, the Ancient Egyptians began to experiment with the true pyramid form. Snofru appears to have built no less than three pyramids. What happened to the Collapsed Pyramid is somewhat self explanatory. When it came to the Bent Pyramid, someone seem to have realised that if they continued to build at such a steep angle, they would soon have a Collapsed Pyramid Mark 2, so the angle was changed partway through to be less steep, leading to its characteristic 'bent profile. Finally, Snofru's labour force completed the Red Pyramid, the first true pyramid built in Egypt. It's not as large as the Great Pyramid on Giza, but it's y'know pretty big and impressive anyway. And as you can see by the landscape, delightfully empty of tourists! (Because somehow, most tourists groups forget that the Dahshur and Meidum cemetery complexes exist).

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Narrowly escaped Imhotep while on my Egypt trip today.

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Why the Bent Pyramid is the Best Pyramid

When I say that I love the bent pyramid I really do mean that. There’s something really special about this one. There are many pyramids that collapsed after their construction for one reason or another, but the bent pyramid is a different story. It survived to the modern day largely intact, just like the ones at Giza, but when you look at this pyramid, you don’t think “wow, what a marvel of human ingenuity”. You think “oh boy, somebody f-ed up” (Or, at least, I do.) and that? That is just so cool to me! This thing is thousands of years old, yet it’s so distinctly human.

The story of the pyramid is that they began construction, but the ground in the area wouldn’t support the initial angle that they planned to build at, so they had to change it. And then, about, half way through they had to change it again in a far more dramatic way than the initial change.

And you hear that story and you think “oh boy, I would NOT have wanted to be the one who had to tell the king that!” And the fact that you think that? It's so special. It connects you to the past in a way that the Giza pyramids don't. To real people that you’re feeling empathy for on a personal level just by looking at this thing. You don't have to go do research or study anything. The monument speaks for itself.

And that’s why I love this pyramid.

Also, fun fact, the reason I use "King" here and not "Pharaoh" is that Pharaoh wasn't the term for the king of Egypt at this time in history. Instead, the word you want to use is "nswt-bjtj" (neh-suit-bee-tea). And, if we're being really technical, the word for the king wasn't ever really "Pharaoh". That's the Greek-ification of it. The ancient Egyptian word was "par'aah" (pair-ay-ha).

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Is It Normal to Have a Favorite Pyramid?

Because I do. And it might be a slightly weird choice.

Photograph of the Meidum Pyramid, courtesy of Wikipedia

The Bent Pyramid is one of three pyramids attributed to the Old Kingdom Pharaoh Sneferu (also spelled Snefru, Snofru, and Hellenized as Soris). These three pyramids, if looked at in order of construction, showcase the evolution from step-pyramid to true pyramid in Egypt. The first pyramid attributed to Sneferu, the Meidum Pyramid (pictured above), was originally constructed as a step-pyramid, but was later encased and transformed into a true pyramid following the completion of the Bent Pyramid and the Red Pyramid.

Photograph of the Bent Pyramid, courtesy of Wikipedia

What makes the Bent Pyramid so special is its iconic shape. About halfway up the pyramid, the angle of incline changes from 54 degrees to 43 degrees. This change is likely due to a certain level of instability that was caused by the steep initial incline, forcing builders to change to a more gradual slope. This instability is also likely why the Red Pyramid, the last one built by Sneferu, was constructed entirely at a 43 degree incline.

Photograph of the Red Pyramid, courtesy of World History Encyclopedia

The reason that the Bent Pyramid is my favorite pyramid in all of Egypt is that it is so distinctly human. When looking at ancient artifacts and monuments, we tend to deify the creators. The Bent Pyramid shows us that even these ancient architects and mathematicians, the people we study and fawn over as geniuses, could and did make mistakes.

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Bent Pyramid, Dahshur

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Never heard of it.

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Bent.

[egyptonlinetours1]

Day Trip to Egypt Pyramids, Sakkara, Dahshur from Port Said

 

 

 

Day Trip to Egypt Pyramids, Sakkara, Dahshur from Port Said

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Overview

Amazing trip from Port Said to visit the great Pyramids, Sphinx and Valley temple, Sakkara step pyramid and the famous high official tombs, Dahshur Bent Pyramid and Red Pyramid with lunch meal and a shopping tour to the famous bazaars during Cairo tours.

Itinerary

- Pick up from your ship terminal at Port Said - Meet up with your professional English speaking tour guide - Full day tour in Giza to visit the Great Pyramids, Sphinx and Valley temple - Lunch meal will be served at a high quality local restaurant in Cairo - Followed by a tour to visit Sakkara Step Pyramid and the famous high official tombs - Then a tour to visit Dahshur Bent Pyramid and Red Pyramid - Early evening a shopping tour to the famous bazaars in Giza - Drive back to Port Said and drop off will be at your ship terminal in Port Said

Included

- Pick up service from your cruise ship Terminal by our REP at Port Said - All transfers by deluxe air-conditioning vehicles in Port Said and Cairo - Sightseeing tours as stated in the Tour itinerary - Egyptology expert English speaking tour guide - Entrance fees to the sightseeing as per tour itinerary - Lunch meal will be served during Cairo tour at a local restaurant by the Pyramids - Free mineral water and soft drink during tour

Excluded

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[emdotcom]

I used AssetStudio to export models from Ink Machine & Dark Revival, then had to troubleshoot their textures into Blender. Couldn't find any armatures therein, but I did get this model comparison! Left is Dark Revival's, right is Ink Machine's.

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Hot take, but if you consider a survivor toxic because of perk choice; it's time to take a break. It's a game, it's not that serious.

[fablesbookstuff]

I want to commit to reading at least one book a week if possible this year and trying to read books on my bookshelf I haven't read before and so im gonna put them here and cross them off each week when I read them.

King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

Ruin of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

Girls of Storm and Shadow by Natasha Ngan

Girls of Fate and Fury by Natasha Ngan

Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust

Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas

Misrule by Heather Walter

A Song of Wraiths and Ruins by Roseanna A.Brown

A Psalm of Storm and Silence by Roseanna A.Brown

Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard

Blade Breaker by Victoria Aveyard

Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta

Godslayers by Zoe Hana Mikuta

A lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

The Sun and the Star Rick Riordan

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Forget me Not by Alyson Derrick

LegendBorn Tracy Deon

BloodMarked Tracy Deon

The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan

The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan

The Ship of the Dead by Rick Riordan

The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan

The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan

The Serpents Shadow by Rick Riordan

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard

Kings Cage by Victoria Aveyard

War Storm by Victoria Aveyard

Silver in the Bone by Alexandra Bracken

ThreadNeedle by Cari Thomas

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

This Poison Heart by Kaylynn Bayron

The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R Tolkien

The Two Towers by J.R.R Tolkien

The Return of the King by J.R.R Tolkien

These are all the ones I have on my bookshelf currently that I either have not read yet or I plan to read again this year. And hopefully I can stick to this one book a week deal

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Looking south from the step pyramid, King Djoser's legacy - the pyramids of his great grandson, Snofru (and, in the foreground, the much later pyramid of King Unas, now in bits).

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How Old Are The Egyptian Pyramids? And Why Did The Ancient Egyptians Build Pyramids In The First Place?

— By Owen Jarus | August 30th, 2023

The Pyramids of Giza, seen here with the Milky Way in the background, are not Egypt's oldest Pyramids. Image Credit: Getty Images

Pyramids are iconic symbols of the ancient pharaohs' power and technological prowess that still dominate the Egyptian skyline. But when were pyramids first built? And why were they constructed in the first place?

The first pyramid in Egypt was built by the pharaoh Djoser, who reigned nearly 4,700 years ago. More than a millennium later, ancient Egypt's last pyramid built for a pharaoh was constructed for Ahmose I around 3,500 years ago. After that, Egyptian rulers were buried in underground tombs in the Valley of the Kings.

Put another way, the ancient Egyptian pyramids were built between about roughly 2700 B.C. and 1500 B.C. This makes the earliest pyramids about the same age as Stonehenge, which was initially built between 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. But the pyramids are much older than other ancient structures, including the Parthenon (447 B.C.), the Great Wall of China (220 B.C.) and the Colosseum (A.D. 80). The Neolithic temple Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, however, is older from 11,000 to 12,000 years ago.

Egypt's First Pyramid

Djoser's pyramid is made up of six layers and was originally built as a type of rectangular tomb known today as a mastaba (an Arabic word meaning "bench") before being expanded into a step pyramid.

Ancient inscriptions indicate that a man named Imhotep directed the step pyramid's construction. "Imhotep is usually regarded as the first architect in Egypt to build in stone and is credited with the building of Djoser's step pyramid complex" Marc Van De Mieroop, a professor of history at Columbia University, told Live Science in an email. "There's an inscription with his name combined with that of Djoser in which he is called chief of sculptors. In later ancient Egypt he was considered a sage," Van De Mieroop added.

The Step Pyramid of Djoser is the oldest Pyramid in Egypt. Image Credit: Anton Petrus / Getty Images

Why Did The Egyptians Build Pyramids?

Researchers are still unsure exactly why pharaohs chose to use pyramids for their burials.

One reason may have been to provide added protection against tomb robbers. In earlier times robbers plundered pharaohs' low-rising mastaba tombs by burrowing in from the top, Egyptologist Reg Clark wrote in his book "Securing Eternity: Ancient Egyptian Tomb Protection from Prehistory to the Pyramids" (American University in Cairo Press, 2019). The step pyramid, with its six layers on top of each other, would have offered protection from this method, Clark wrote. "Many Egyptologists have suggested that the step pyramid formed a kind of 'stairway' for the king to ascend to the sky, but I suggest that [it was built] because it is the most efficient and economical way to create a virtual 'hemisphere' of protection over the underlying substructure," Clark told Live Science in an email.

Another important innovation was that stone was used to build the step pyramid, whereas the mastabas used by previous pharaoh were made of mudbrick; this was important as stone is harder to infiltrate, Clark noted.

Religious reasons may also have been an important factor. Miroslav Verner, a professor emeritus of Egyptology at Charles University in the Czech Republic, told Live Science in an email that "probably religious reasons were behind" the idea to build pyramids.

When Djoser came to power, the influence of the sun cult and the sun god Ra (also spelled Re) was increasing, Verner wrote in his book "The Pyramids: The Archaeology and History of Egypt's Iconic Monuments" (American University in Cairo Press, 2021). The sun cult's growing influence may have led to a desire to build structures that reached higher into the sky. Verner noted that a passage from a text dating back around 4,400 years said "may the sky make the sunlight strong for you, may you rise up to the sky as the Eye of Re" (Translation by Raymond Faulkner).

One question is whether a growing interest in the sun cult brought about the construction of the step pyramid, or whether the construction of the step pyramid brought about an increasing interest in the sun cult. "What came first, the egg or the chicken?" Massimiliano Nuzzolo, a researcher at the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, told Live Science in an email.

Nuzzolo thinks that interest in the solar cult grew after the construction of the step pyramid. "This incredible architectural enterprise may have also affected and somehow even pushed for a change in the religious ideology, eventually reflected on a major emphasis on the solar aspects of the kingship," Nuzzolo said.

The Bent Pyramid, built under ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Sneferu, is named for its unique angles. Image Credit: Getty Images

Built For A Millennium

Whatever the reasons for building pyramids, Egyptian pharaohs constructed them for more than a millennium. The pharaoh Sneferu (reign circa 2575 to 2551 B.C.) built the first true pyramids (pyramids with flat sides) at Dahshur. These consisted of the Bent Pyramid (so named because of its unusual angle) and the Red Pyramid (named after its color). The Great Pyramid at Giza, the only one of the seven ancient wonders of the world that still stands, was built by Khufu (reign circa 2551 to 2528 B.C.) while Khafre (reign circa 2520 to 2494 B.C.) built another large pyramid, along with the Great Sphinx, at Giza.

It's not clear why Egyptian pharaohs stopped building pyramids, but security concerns may have been part of it. Despite likely being harder to loot than mastabas, Egyptian pyramids were plundered in ancient times, and pharaohs may have hoped that building their tombs in the Valley of the Kings would make them harder to ransack. Additionally, the topography of the valley has a peak that today is called el-Qurn (sometimes spelled Gurn), which looks a bit like a natural pyramid.

[oh-my-frog]

Sometimes i think the ancient egypt phase i had as a kid was insignificant and now here i am reading a 300 page research paper about the pyramids and vibrating because i'm so excited to play assassins creed origins later just so i can climb up the pyramid i read about

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