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Originally Posted by RichBarna  Ok, here's another thing. Did the Egyptians just come up with these engineering feats of wonder all in one go? Where did they practice all these techniques first then?. Shouldn't Egypt be scattered with pyramids that collapsed because the chief engineer made a boo-boo? |
There was an evolution of the shape. The ones dated earlier are small, piles of rocks. then they had stepped sides. They look pretty small and unimpressive. Then, they started building them at larger scales and adding more steps. until they created the largest ones in Giza. the basic design was modeled after a pile of sand, I think, or a mountain.