Mysterious Pyramid Of Menkaure Remains An Ancient Puzzle
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Pyramids are considered anonymous structures. Pharaohs built huge, well-constructed pyramids, tombs, and temples to glorify themselves and be forever remembered after death, but their bodies were never inside these structures.
The Pyramid of Menkaure is the smallest of the three main Pyramids of Giza, located on the Giza Plateau in the southwestern outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. Credit: Adobe Stock - Alfredo
In none of them were the bodies of builders or rulers found, and when they were occasionally found, they were "very young" and had no connection to Egypt's ancient times.
The Old Kingdom stone pyramids were never actually ‘real’ tombs. The 19th-century so-called 'tomb theory' was invented only to replace earlier theories that suggested the pyramids were storehouses for grain or repositories of sacred measurements of the planet.
So, for what purpose were these impressive, gigantic structures built?
In fact, no one, even Sir William Flinders Petrie, the earliest authority on the pyramids of Giza, had any idea about it.
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