MYBTours Inc : The Bent Pyramid (Loads and loadsa piccies to hannoy 56K users)
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you are so learned...
why don't you have a job as a museum...guy?
why don't you have a job as a museum...guy?
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lol!Beaky sir thats brilliant!
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Can't help but look at that photo and think of some of the people who work here:
Heheheh.
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Absolutely fantsastic post Beaky 
One thing that did scare me, was the tiny tunnels. I would be absolutely petrified (me being a chlostrophobic)
Nice one MYB s'ah
One thing that did scare me, was the tiny tunnels. I would be absolutely petrified (me being a chlostrophobic
)Nice one MYB s'ah
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Great Post! I only found out the pyramids had that covering on the BBC Pyramid program which was on a while bacl. There is a site about it over at the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/pyramid/index.shtml
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An excellent post sah. Perhaps the bent top part of the pyramid was covered in some expensive material that was later removed by thieves.
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top class readin as ever Mr beak s'ah
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AFAIK the generally accepted explanation (and it's been accepted for more than thirty years) is that the change in slope coincided with the collapse of another pyramid being build at a similar steep angle at the same time. Since the earliest step pyramids the builders had been trying steeper and steeper angles until the inevitable happened. The builders realised that the pyramid at Dashur would also collapse if contruction continued at the high angle, so a lower angle was chosen for the rest - actually lower than that at which entire pyramids would later be build (I believe Khufu is at 46 degrees).
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