The pyramids Some of the most interesting building in the world are the pyramids. The pyramids stand huge and silent, and in modern days, people look at them and wonder, "Who built them’ Why When What is in- side’ How did they do it" Thousands of years ago in Egypt, kings built the pyramids. They used to build them as (1) ______. The kings [1] ______ thought the pyramids would help them find life after (2) ______, [2] ______ -- ,and join Ra in his journeys (3) ______ life sky. [3] ______ They also wanted the world to remember them as important peo- ple. Some pyramids were found by thieves who in fact found their way into the pyramids and into most of the pharaoh’s tombs. The tombs were still full of treasure. [4] ______ There are many pyramids along the (4) ______ River. [5] ______ The (5) ______ is the pyramid of Khufa. It is made of 2,300, [6] ______ 000 huge (6) ______ ,most of them higher than a person, It is about 144 meters high. Inside the pyramid are the burial rooms for the king and queen and long passageways to these rooms. The rest of the pyramid is solid stone. [7] ______ Workers usually built the pyramids when the flood began in (7) ______ and they could not work on their farms. To build the pyramid of Khufu, 100,000 men worked for twenty years. We know there were wonderful treasures in the pyramids: Robbers went into the pyramids and took many of these treas- ures. Today some of the treasures are in museums, though. How did the people of ancient days build the pyramids How did they carry and lift the huge stones Each stone fit so [8] ______ well and they didn’t have our modern machines! The ancient [9] ______ (8) ______ in Egyptian tombs give us some ideas. The workers used (9) ______, levers and rollers to move stones. Besides [10] ______ the Egyptian pyramids, there are also great pyramids in (10) ______ which were used for human sacrifice and different from Egyptian tombs in shape and other aspects.