As ancient Egyptian rulers, pharaohs were both the heads of state and the religious leaders of their people. The word “pharaoh” means “Great House,” a reference to the palace where the pharaoh resides. While early Egyptian rulers were called “kings,” over time, the name “pharaoh” stuck.

A cuboid is a polyhedron having six faces, eight vertices and twelve edges. A cone is a three-dimensional shape in geometry that narrows smoothly from a flat base to a point called the apex or vertex.

So to count the number of faces, you look for how many flat sides the polyhedron has. Looking at the shape, you see that it has a face on top, on the bottom, to the left and to the right, on the front and at the back. Counting each of these, you end up with 6 faces.

Despite what you may think about this ancient structure, the Great Pyramid is an eight-sided figure, not a four-sided figure. Each of the pyramid’s four side are evenly split from base to tip by very subtle concave indentations.

It was the Egyptians who built the Pyramids. The Great Pyramid is dated with all the evidence, I’m telling you now, to 4,600 years, the reign of Khufu. The Great Pyramid of Khufu is one of 104 Pyramids in Egypt with superstructure, and there are 54 Pyramids with substructure.

Hawass said evidence from the site indicates that the approximately 10,000 laborers working on the pyramids ate 21 cattle and 23 sheep sent to them daily from farms. Though they were not slaves, the pyramid builders led a life of hard labor, said Adel Okasha, supervisor of the excavation.

The pyramids of Giza were royal tombs built for three different pharaohs. The northernmost and oldest pyramid of the group was built for Khufu (Greek: Cheops), the second king of the 4th dynasty. The middle pyramid was built for Khafre (Greek: Chephren), the fourth of the eight kings of the 4th dynasty.

The Great Pyramid was built by quarrying an estimated 2.3 million large blocks weighing 6 million tonnes total. The majority of stones are not uniform in size or shape and are only roughly dressed. The outside layers were bound together by mortar. Primarily local limestone from the Giza Plateau was used.

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