But around one hundred years before the pyramid attributed to Khufu was built, a Pharaoh called Djoser commissioned the first pyramid in Egypt. Its also not the oldest, although it is the largest and tallest. The Great Pyramid of Giza was not the first pyramid built in Egypt. Its purpose is perhaps the greatest mystery of them all.Ĭountless theories have tried to explain the true purpose of the Great Pyramid of Giza, and the most accepted one is that the structure was built to safeguard the Pharaoh’s body in the afterlife. But countless mysteries surround not only the structure, but the people who built it, the technology used in its construction, the kind of logistics at their disposal, and its purpose. Eventually, they managed it and constructed a pyramid, unlike any other evidence of ancient Egyptian architectural development. In other words, the pyramid’s constructors had to overcome countless obstacles, not only to build the pyramid but to transport, quarry, and move the massive blocks of stone to complete the project. Those are some impressive characteristics of a structure built in ancient times when technology was limited, and the wheel had not been introduced to the builders yet. Researchers have calculated that 5.5 million tons of limestone, 8,000 tons of granite (imported from Aswan), and 500,000 tons of mortar were used to construct the Great Pyramid, which would remain the tallest building on the surface of the planet for more than 3,800 years. It was such a behemoth construction process that experts estimate the Great Pyramid’s total weight at around 6 million tons. The structure, supposedly built in twenty years, is made out of more than 2.3 million blocks of stone and is surely the most mysterious and puzzling pyramid on Earth. If you ask any Egyptologist what the purpose of the Great Pyramid of Giza was, they’ll probably, tell you that it was built as the eternal resting place for Pharaoh Khufu around 4,500 years ago, concluding approximately in 2560 BC. Khufu's mummy is missing, as well as the mummies of Khafre and Menkaure. They had a son, Robert Edward Stuart Chambers (later calling himself Robert Husted Chambers) who also gained some fame as an author.Ĭhambers died at his home in the village of Broadalbin, New York, on December 16th 1933.The Pyramid of Djoser contained no mummy, neither did the Red Pyramid of Sneferu. Some of his novels touch upon colonial life in Broadalbin and Johnstown. Many of his works were also serialized in magazines.Īfter 1924 he devoted himself solely to writing historical fiction.Ĭhambers for several years made Broadalbin his summer home. According to some estimates, Chambers was one of the most successful literary careers of his period, his later novels selling well and a handful achieving best-seller status. His most famous, and perhaps most meritorious, effort is The King in Yellow, a collection of weird short stories, connected by the theme of the fictitious drama The King in Yellow, which drives those who read it insane.Ĭhambers returned to the weird genre in his later short story collections The Maker of Moons and The Tree of Heaven, but neither earned him such success as The King in Yellow.Ĭhambers later turned to writing romantic fiction to earn a living. Then, for reasons unclear, he devoted his time to writing, producing his first novel, In the Quarter (written in 1887 in Munich). On his return to New York, he succeeded in selling his illustrations to Life, Truth, and Vogue magazines. Chambers studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, and at Académie Julian, in Paris from 1886 to 1893, and his work was displayed at the Salon as early as 1889. Robert William Chambers was an American artist and writer.Ĭhambers was first educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute,and then entered the Art Students' League at around the age of twenty, where the artist Charles Dana Gibson was his fellow student.
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