SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD: The Great Pyramid of Ancient Egypt.

Location of the Great Pyramid:

The Great Pyramid located at Giza on the west

bank of the  Nile river north of Cairo in Egypt

is the only wonder  of the  ancient world  that has survived to the present day.

Amazingly the nearly symmetrical Egyptian

Pyramids were built  without the aid of modern Tools or surveying equipment.

The ancients recounted seven wonders of the  world and at the  very head of the  list named the  Great  Pyramid of Giza. It is situated in Egypt not far from the present  city of Cairo.

No other building in the world equals it in size.

It is  also the only one left standing.

It is a marvel  of human engineering and construction and  its sheer size and scale  rivals any structure  built  within the last few

hundred years.

One Researcher made a personal visit and

Inspection of the  Great Pyramid says:

     "There are  blocks of stone in the  Pyramid  which weigh three or four times as much  as one of the  obelisks.  Estimated weight of a stone was 880 ton.  There are stones in it

Thirty feet in length  which fit so closely  together  that you may run a penknife over the surface without discovering  the breaks  between them."

      "There  is now no machinery so perfect that  it will make two surfaces thirty feet in length  which will  meet together  as these  wonderful  stones  in the  Great Pyramid meet.

      " It covers an area of about 13 acres. It is

486 ft. High and 764 ft. Width at its base.

It is estimated  that  the  Great pyramid weighs

Six million  tons."

The Great Pyramid  of Giza is the  oldest monument on the list  of the Seven Wonders

of the ancient World.

Date and Period

The renowned modern Astronomers and  Archeologists were not given the  exact date of building the Great Pyramid and other numerous monuments containing  tombs.

An estimated period is calculated from 2500 BC to 1500BC, because the history is very obscure, everything seemed dark that corner

of the  world.

The pyramids shape was important. It

represented the rays of the  Sun.  The

Egyptians believed that  dead Pharaohs were carried to everlasting life in the land of the

dead by the Sun's  rays.

The Religion of the Ancient Egypt.

Ancient Egypt's religion  appears  to have  been

mainly a matter of  ceremonies and spells,

designed to achieve certain desired results through  the providence of one or more of

their numerous  gods.

Egypt was an ultra religious  land,  rife with polytheism. Every city and  town had its own 

local deity, bearing  the  title "Lord of the city."

A list found in the tomb  of Thuthmose III

contains the  names  of some 740 gods.

Frequently the god was represented as married to a goddess  who bore him a son,  "thus forming a divine triad or trinity in which the  father, moreover, was not always the  chief ,

contenting himself  on occasion with the role

of Prince consort, while the principal deity of the locality  remained  the  goddess .

Each of the chief gods dwelt in a temple  that  was  not open to the  public.  The god was worshipped  by the priests who awoke  him

each morning with a hymn, bathed  him, dressed him, fed him and  rendered   him other  services.  The priests were  apparently  regarded as acting as the representatives  of the Pharaoh who was believed  to be  a living  god himself, the  son of the  god Ra.

The lack of unity of belief is apparent however, as regional  differences continued  throughout

Egyptian history  and  resulted in a maze  of

legends and myths  often contradictory.

Most  popular worship  was the  trinity or

triad of Osiris, Isis (his wife) and Horus (his son). 

Then there  were the cosmic  gods  headed by

Ra, the  Sun-god and including gods  of  the  moon , sky,  air,  earth,  the  river Nile  and  so  forth.

This polytheistic  worship  had  no beneficial

 or uplifting  effect on the  Egyptians. In reality

the available evidence shows  that  magic  and primitive  superstition were basic elements  of  the Egyptian worship.

Religious magic was employed to prevent disease.   Spiritism  was prominent, with many  charmers, spirit  mediums , and professional 

foretellers of event.

Beads, Amulets, and good-luck charms were

worn , and  magic  spells  were written on scraps  of papyrus  and  tied around  the  neck.

Animal Worship:

These superstitious worship led the Egyptians

to practice a most degrading  idolatry  that embraced the  worship  of  animals.

Many of the  most prominent  gods  were regularly depicted  as having a human body with the  head of  an animal  or  bird.

The living Apis bull viewed as the  incarnation of  the  god Osiris, was kept  in a temple  and at death  received  an elaborate  funeral  and burial .

The belief  that some  animals such as Cats, baboons, crocodiles, jackals , and various  birds, were sacred by virtue of their association  with certain gods resulted in the Egyptians mummifying  literally hundreds of

thousands of such creatures  burying them in special cemeteries.

Making Mummies

The ancient Egyptians believed that  peoples

Spirits could only survive after death if their  bodies survived as well.  So they  preserved

dead bodies by removing the innards, drying

the flesh and bones with chemicals, then

wrapping the remains in bandages.  Wealthy families  also paid for fine painted  mummy cases, or for stone caskets, called sarcophagi.

Finished mummies were buried in tombs, decorated with pictures of the dead person and their  family enjoying life in the world  of  the dead.

The word "mummy" comes from the Arabic

for bitumen (sticky black tar, found in the Egyptian desert).  Mummified bodies  often looked black and sticky because they  were

coated in resin (not tar), but scented  gum

from trees.

Bible Testimony

In the Hebrew Scriptures, Egypt is usually

Designated by the name Mizraim, evidently

pointing to the prominence or predominance

of the descendants of that  son of Ham in the

region. The name Misr is applied  to Egypt even today by Arabs. In certain Psalms it is called "the land of Ham", one of the three  Sons of

Noah, the surviver of great flood.

The Bible  history shows  that  Egypt was the

First World Power hate Jehovah's chosen

People Israel.  Jehovah delivered  his people

on the very day of B C 1513 Nisan 14, the

Passover night, and victoriously won the fight

against Pharaoh and  his military  force.

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