The Mysteries of Egypt

From here to up there. And you must all make them fit perfectly. Now that takes knowledge, an incredible knowledge of engineering and organization. Organization? Absolutely, you just said so yourself.. It was not the gods who built these great monuments it was people thousands and thousand of people. Imagine being one of these people, living in a tiny village more than four thousand years ago. Life would be pretty much the same, day in and day out, farming, herding cattle, fishing in the Nile. Then one day, you are selected to journey by boat down the Nile, you are now part to build the great national project to build the pharaoh's tomb. But you have no idea what kind of tomb. And then you see a monument to the sun,life eter- nal. How did they move such heavy stones to such great heights? There are many theories, but they pulled the blocks up mud stricken ramps, raising the ramps as the pyramid grew. Masons then set the stones with such precision a postcard could not fit. To create the great pyramid of Kufu, it took over twenty years, more than two million stone blocks and some twenty thousand people and they might have been slaves. But now we think they were mostly peasant farmers, recruited to work here part of the year. With their help, the early pharaohs built more than a hundred pyramids, eighty of which survive today. " What happened later, you told Tutanchamon was not buried in a pyramid." " No, he wasn't. They stopped building them and for a good reason." There were robbers who care far more about heaps of gold than an eternal journey. The pyramids to these thieves were like enormous billboards, saying, we buried the king in here, and all his treasure with him. At any rate a new plan had to be devised.That is why five hundred years later the last pyramids were built.
A new era of kings decided that instead of building tombs which everyone could see, why not build tombs which no one could see. Three hundred miles after the great pyramids across the Nile fro the modern city of Luxor is this barren maze of valleys in the shadow of the natural ...... Here no thief could find the royal tombs.....................

1. Who worked on the pyramids?2. How did they move the stones up?3. What did the robbers do?4. What did the new kings decide?