Building the great pyramid is great family educational entertainment made much more valuable by the extra making of feature. In building the great pyramid, travel back 4,500 years with the bbc as they recreate the circumstances under which it may have been built, as well as the daily life of the population at that time. The great pharaoh khufu, or sometimes referred to as cheops, is known for building the great pyramids. An architect develops a theory about a snaking internal ramp thats been hidden inside the pyramid for 4500 years. Egypts oldest papyrus fragments, which detail the construction of the great pyramid of giza, have gone on public display in cairo. The first, and largest, pyramid at giza was built by the pharaoh khufu reign started around 2551 b. Pyramid of khufu cheops pyramid luxor and aswan travel. The pyramid of khufu at giza is the largest egyptian pyramid. Bbc documentary describing how the great pyramid was built. The how we dont know but by combining the latest archaeological research and stateoftheart visual. C and was built for the fourth dynasty in ancient egypt. Although academics and museums participated in the creation of this video, it seemed to need more footnotes, so to speak, to add to the credability as i watched. In 1997, mark lehner and stonemason roger hopkins conducted a threeweek pyramid building experiment for a nova television episode. Rent building the great pyramid 2002 on dvd and bluray.
What the completed great pyramid wouldve looked like smithsonian channel. For four thousand years men have marvelled at the great pyramid of giza. Building the great pyramid 2002 based on the latest archaeological discoveries and combining dramatic reconstruction, location shooting and stateoftheart cgi computer effects, this film travels back in time to reveal. Yes, a new study reveals the great pyramid of giza isnt a perfect square but its still a structural marvel the archaeologist who calculated the pyramid s base would like to remind the. The film is a fictional account of the building of the great pyramid. Yes, a new study reveals the great pyramid of giza isnt a. They built a pyramid 6 metres 20 ft high by 9 metres 30 ft wide, consisting of a total of 162 cubic metres 5,700 cu ft, or about 405 tons. Egypts oldest papyri detail great pyramid construction. Twelve quarrymen carved 186 stones in 22 days, and the structure was erected using 44 men. When he died, they buried his mummified body beneath the pyramid of giza.
Novelist william faulkner was one of the film s three screenwriters. How the pyramids were built pyramid science part 2. Pyramid aka building the great pyramid is a 2002 bbc television documentary film which tells the story of the building of the great pyramid at giza through the commentary of the fictional builder, nakht. Egyptian pyramid construction techniques wikipedia. His son, khafre, and another pharaoh, menkaure, are credited with building the other two pyramids at giza, but neither of them is as large or impressive as khufu s great pyramid, completed around 2560 bc and originally standing 481 feet tall 455 feet today due to the removal of its outer casing and capstone. His great pyramid is the largest in giza and towers some 481 feet 147 meters above the plateau. His pyramid, which today stands 455 feet 8 meters tall, is known as the great pyramid and was considered to be a wonder of the world by ancient writers.
It was made out of 186 stones weighing an average of 2. Later kings, of the 12th dynasty, would return to pyramid building during the socalled middle kingdom phase, but it was never on the same scale as the great pyramids. Land of the pharaohs had a cast of thousands warner bros. Who is responsible for building the great pyramid answers. How were the blocks raised to the top of the 489ft great pyramid. Its last and most enduring mystery is that the mummy of the godking khufu has never been found. Its estimated the people of egypt spent some 30 years building the great pyramid.