Eternal life during the age of pyramids

Eternal life during the age of pyramids

At the beginning of the third millennium the idea of pyramids was born in Egyptian architecture. It is believed that the first pyramid was the one of pharaoh Djoser at Saqqara, not far from Cairo, and it was followed by a few more in Dahshur and Meidum. After that a major project followed including the construction of three large pyramids at Giza.

Although many people believe that pyramids were not meant exclusively as pharaonic tombs, it is by all means under the influence of those rulers, who considered their accession to the sky as a continuation of their ruling after death, that pyramids were built.