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the first of the three great pyramids we visited, and the smallest. it still looked pretty damn big to me.
A small selection of photos from the Pyramid's 10th Birthday Party
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Photo taken by Glenn Sundby, editor of AcroSports Magazine - long before photoshop. This is not photoshopped. It is good old fashion sports photography and luck. The trampolinist is me while we were in Egypt on a promotional tour for Nissen, Inc, the company that made trampolines and gymnastic equipment. We went there to promote trampoline and gymnastics to Egyptian athletes.
The Pyramid of Cestius is an ancient pyramid and the Porta San Paolo gate into Rome, the Pyramid dates from 8 BC and is a tomb for Gaius Cestius. The Porta San Paolo is where the Germans entered Rome to occupy it.
Material : hexagon of colored kraft paper.
Variation on dice tessellation created by Ralf Konrad.
No new creases added to the dice model, I had just to pop up the little stars embedded into the design.
Result is like Owesen stars (sorry, Fredrik, no credit for you here) : these little stars are also part of Konrad's work, see here
Some other photos of dice tessellation and pyramid of stars here on my website.
Pyramid Island and Pyramid Mountain are reflected in Pyramid Lake, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada
The Pyramid of the Magician (Spanish: Pirámide del adivino) is a Mesoamerican step pyramid located in the ancient, Pre-Columbian city of Uxmal, Mexico. The structure is also referred to as the Pyramid of the Dwarf, Casa el Adivino, and the Pyramid of the Soothsayer. The pyramid is the tallest and most recognizable structure in Uxmal. This Pyramid is very ancient to the Mayans.
Me (left), my brother, and mother, standing on the Great Pyramid of Khufu (a.k.a. Cheops), Giza, Egypt. Yes, on the Pyramid.
This was my first overseas trip, and an incredible experience. I had a plastic Kodak Brownie camera which used 110 film cartridges (originally marketed as the Kodak Pocket A1), so the photos aren't great quality, but it's very cool to be able to scan and post them now.
Check out my cool white shorts. In my defence, I was 12 years old, and this was only one year after the 70s.
Few people bother to view the pyramids from this side as the vantage point requires an off track walk to a ridgeline a little to the west. The notes designate the route taken by tourists from graded tracks below.
The left Pyramid is accessed by climbers only. A good reference there is Robert Rankin's book, Secrets of the Scenic Rim.
The ancient necropolis of Dahshur is renowned for two of the oldest and best preserved pyramids in Egypt, both built by pharaoh Sneferu of the 4th Dynasty, c2600BC.
It is here at Dahshur that the familar form of the straight-sided pyramid was first refined, the earliest being the step pyramid of King Djoser at nearby Saqqara (part of the same necropolis and visible from here). A second pyramid at Meidum (much further south) initially followed this same stepped form, but was modified by filling in the steps to give a smooth diagonal surface, the weight of which proved too great a burden for the structure and large parts collapsed. Meidum pyramid was believed to have been started by pharaoh Huni, but continued by his successor Sneferu, who after this ill fated venture turned his attention to a new site at Dahshur.
The first pyramid here is known as the Bent Pyramid owing to the dramatic change of angle halfway up it, which is the result of the building being started at too steep a gradient, and with growing structural instability as work progressed and mindful of the collapse at Meidum the decision was made to lower the angle for the upper parts giving this pyramid its unique form. Behind it is a small satellite pyramid (in a more ruinous condition) probably intended for Sneferu's queen.
Sneferu then learned from these mistakes and built a second pyramid nearby sloping at a much lower (and structurally safer) angle. It is not only the first complete smooth-sided pyramid but also the third largest in Egypt (after those of Khufu and Khafre at Giza). The name 'Red Pyramid' refers to the exposed sandstone of the massive structure, which originally would have been covered by a smooth white facing stone which was quarried away in early medieval times. Whilst the Red Pyramid is now externally denuded, much of this facing however still remains on the nearby Bent Pyramid, and no other Egyptian pyramid retains so much of its original outer surface.
The Red Pyramid is believed to have been Sneferu's final resting place but the tomb itself was robbed out in antiquity. Visitors may enter the sequence of corridors and rooms that lead to the burial chamber, and admire the dramatically tapering corbelled ceilings within. The interior of the Bent Pyramid is off limits to visitors, beings more difficult to access with a complex internal layout.
There are further pyramids surrounding the Dahshur necropolis, all later, smaller scale structures from the Middle Kingdom that are now far more ruinous and look as much like mounds or natural outcrops. The most notable and prominent is the Black Pyramid of Amenemhet III, of which only the heavily eroded mass of the mud-brick core remains, looking more like a natural rock-formation, Like Sneferu, Amemenhet III was also dissatisfied with his first pyramid and frustrated by structural problems, so built a larger second one much further south at Hawara for his final repose.
Dahshur's pyramids were for many years off limits to tourists owing to their proximity to a military zone, and on our previous visit to Egypt we could only gaze at their tantalising distant silhouettes from nearby Saqqara. Now the site is happily accessible again, and whilst only the Red Pyramid may be entered to be finally able to get so close to these awesome structures is more than enough reward.
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The Louvre Pyramid (Pyramide du Louvre) is a large glass and metal pyramid, surrounded by three smaller pyramids, in the main courtyard (Cour Napoléon) of the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) in Paris. The large pyramid serves as the main entrance to the Louvre Museum. Completed in 1989,it has become a landmark of the city of Paris.
This was shot on a tripod with a 30secs exposure. I used Lightroom 5 and Photoshop CC to finished up the photo.
© Saira Bhatti
To shelter and safeguard the part of a pharaoh's soul that remained with his corpse, Egyptians built massive tombs—but not always pyramids.
Before the pyramids, tombs were carved into bedrock and topped by flat-roofed structures called mastabas. Mounds of dirt, in turn, sometimes topped the structures.
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