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The Four Famous Pyramids
   The mummies of the ancient egypt pyramids were Khufu, Khafre, and Menkakures.  Khufu had the largest and he has the most popular pyramids of them all.  He had one for him and three for his three queens.  The inside of his pyramid looked like this.  (see diagram A).<Diagram A

                    Diagram B^
Khafre was Khufu's son and Menakures was Khafre's son.  The pyramids were built using sleds ramps, and slaves.  The sleds they used to  move huge blocks of stone onto the pyramid.  They used the Ramps to do pretty much the same thing as using the ramps.  They used the slaves to use the tools that i just talked about.  Without the slaves then the pharaohs and the important people would have to do all the work.  So anyone who wasn't a important person was normally a slave.  Khufu had the largest pyramid and Khafre had the 2nd largest pyramid, and Menakures had the 3rd largest.  The Out side of the four famous pyramids looked like this.  (see diagram B).  The pyramids were used to put mummies in.  Pyramids were often robbed.  This was because when people died they often had gold and riches in them.  That is one of the reasons King Khufu's pyramid was famous.  It was desighned perfectly so that no body could steal anything from it because they would get lost trying to find his tomb.  Now that you know that much about pyramids you can find out more by going to the library, or reading an encyclopedia.  Or you can search the web!  Have a nice day.

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