Pyramid
A pyramid is a stepped pyramidal faces in the shape of giant staircase. Construction funeral for the ancient Egyptians or the Solar Temple for the peoples Columbian , assignment varies according to civilizations that built them.
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Ancient Egypt
The pyramid is an intermediate stage in the evolution of pyramids starting with the mastaba and ending with the pyramids with smooth surfaces through the rhomboid pyramid of Pharaoh Sneferu.
The first pyramid was built for the Pharaoh Djoser by his architect Imhotep at Saqqara , during the Third Dynasty of the Old Kingdom (2700-2625 BC). Egyptologists believe that this pyramid was built in several stages: Firstly, a mastaba classic like all pharaohs of this period, and then expand the mastaba to reach the current size of the square base of the pyramid, and finally superimposing several mastaba (four floors and six storeys) smaller and smaller.
Mesopotamia and Persia
In Mesopotamia there are religious buildings in a stepped pyramid, whose function remains unclear, even if he would rather be a place of worship and sacrifice, named Ziggurat.
Ancient America
Examples of step pyramids are found in many pre-Columbian civilizations , especially in Mesoamerica , from Olmec to Aztec , and in South America , among the Incas.
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