| In Egypt pyramids were used as monumental tombs, whereas in Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, and South America they were temple platforms. |
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| The great pyramids were burial tombs for the pharaohs who were revered as gods on earth. |
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| He used the pyramids as support for a totally barmy argument against metric units. |
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| The magnolias are clipped into pyramids and underplanted with topiary balls that will eventually meld into each other to create a cloud hedge. |
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| The Maya erected new pyramids on top of older ones, concealing previous building phases. |
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| Travelers to Egypt are still impressed with its great pyramids, slender obelisks and avenues of monuments. |
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| The 3D Objects tool lets you create modelled spheres, cubes, rectangles cones, pyramids, toroids and more effortlessly. |
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| Housing artifacts of the Moche people, the museum is designed like one of their pyramids. |
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| The ancient monoliths, pyramids, stone circles and grand statues were not just art or architecture. |
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| Most researchers now agree that the pyramids were very elaborate monuments for the dead. |
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| One of the most compelling features of the pyramids, in addition to the architectural feat of just building them, was their mortuary art. |
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| Bay is often trained into standards and pyramids and makes a good focal point in a herb garden. |
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| Volumes of solids such as prisms, pyramids, tetrahedrons, wedges, cylinders and truncated cones are calculated. |
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| A few blocks away, corner markets still had fruit neatly stacked in pyramids out front. |
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| The last but not the least of the Egypt must-sees is Cairo with its pyramids. |
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| Teenage boys dressed as cowherds form human pyramids to reach and break the pots. |
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| Originally the pyramids were covered with a protective coating of polished white limestone. |
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| My own inexpert view is that whether she is proved right or wrong, Spence's basic idea marks a major breakthrough in dating these pyramids. |
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| The Image of Egypt exhibition features an array of patchwork and embroidery depicting Egypt, pharaohs and pyramids. |
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| Rhinopomatids live in treeless arid regions and roost in caves, rock clefts, wells, houses, and pyramids. |
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| How could the Egyptians have built the pyramids if they did not have enough people? |
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| His vertical stripes have been put onto a slant, and whittled down to slender triangles or widened into parallelograms or pyramids. |
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| There are pyramids of sweet-smelling guavas, papayas, watermelons, pineapples, custard apples, lemons, limes and avocados. |
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| Walk on stilts and barrels, create human pyramids, learn acrobatic and aerial skills, balance on a rola-bola and learn to juggle! |
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| The primary building material was large adobe brick, and huge pyramids towered above the city. |
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| The Egyptian rulers ordered the pyramids to be built because they feared their remains would be disturbed by grave robbers. |
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| For anyone who willingly suspends disbelief, it is an easy matter to enter into the world of pyramids. |
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| In cultures where the seasons do not change and the sun is strong year round, the sun is worshiped with great pyramids and blood sacrifices. |
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| When made of precious stones, pyramids gain value as ornaments, and are valued as decorative pieces as well. |
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| He used to spend whole days in his billiard room, where he played pyramids indefatigably till his arms and legs ached. |
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| Corticospinal and corticobulbar fibers descend in large bundles at this level, destined for the pyramids of the medulla oblongata. |
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| Stepped pyramids known as ziggurats survive from the 3rd millennium BC in Mesopotamia. |
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| Also repugnant to Moses was the Egyptian ideology that chose to enslave live men in order to build temples and pyramids to honor dead men. |
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| The cortical tissue in the area between the medullary pyramids constitutes the renal columns of Bertin. |
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| Other pictures must be reflected in shiny spheres, mirrored pyramids, or other reflecting shapes to reveal their true identity. |
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| The book says you can also shape them in little pyramids like French bakeries sometimes do. |
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| He compared this to pyramids made by cheerleaders at sports events and parents putting tethers on toddlers. |
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| Perfect crystal structures can contain pyramids, cubes, or hexagons, but not pentagons. |
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| A wide leather wrist band studded with silver pyramids slid down his thin arm. |
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| The ceremonial centres included temples, pyramids, ball-courts, palaces, and plazas, usually linked by causeways or wide paved roads. |
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| The ancient Egyptians used the pyramids as tombs for the pharaohs and temples for their gods. |
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| The sites are fascinating for their pyramids, sculpture, frescoes and stelae. |
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| However, there are other pyramids of the sun and of the moon throughout Mexico and Yucatan. |
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| Centuries ago, builders used buckets, barrels, and wheelbarrows to help erect the pyramids. |
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| The large stepped pyramids even exceed the size of the pyramids in Egypt for sheer volume of material used. |
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| How were ancient peoples able to construct monumental Egyptian pyramids in an age devoid of the tools of modern technology? |
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| Initially it was thought that the Maya pyramids did not serve as tombs, but recent explorations have identified burial sites within some of them. |
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| Megalithic temples that predate the Egyptian pyramids, Bronze Age archaeological sites, Phoenician inscriptions, and Roman catacombs all contribute to a sense of nationhood. |
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| The pyramids of Meroe await a day when stability will allow outsiders to peek at a forgotten ancient kingdom. |
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| Beer is rationed to the slaves building the Egyptian pyramids. |
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| But the site has seen little of the decimation from heavy tourism that has plagued the northern pyramids of Giza in Egypt. |
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| A sheet has been put over the pyramids because people in an office in the hospital have complained about the reflective light from the CD pyramid. |
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| From above, the shapes resembled pyramids, roads and buildings, they said. |
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| The second monster was an Englishman, Richard Vyse, who on a visit to Egypt in 1835 became fascinated by the pyramids of Giza. |
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| The other bombings included a blast near a cinema near the Giza pyramids but there were no reports of casualties. |
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| They were piled in heaps inside homes, stored in overflowing baskets, and stacked in pyramids as high as children. |
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| In the marketplaces, vegetable sellers pile their wares into colourful pyramids, shouting at passing donkeys intent on stealing a mouthful of spinach. |
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| The crystals are stepped tetragonal pyramids associated with chrysocolla. |
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| Visions of exotic beauties like Nefertiti, legends of mummified pharaohs and the towering presence of the pyramids have made Egypt a fantasy place. |
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| The Maya, Olmecs, Toltecs, and Aztecs built cities and pyramids. |
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| There's a particularly good 3D Objects tool, which lets you create modelled spheres, cubes, rectangles cones, pyramids, toroids and more effortlessly. |
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| See the pyramids along the Nile. Watch the sun rise on a tropic isle. |
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| Unfortunately, dozens of pyramids are missing their peaks thanks to an overeager, gold-seeking explorer. |
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| Ancient Egyptians left behind a rich artistic heritage in the form of pyramids, pharaonic painting and sculpture, hieroglyphics, and architecture. |
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| They built great pyramids, like their successors the Mayans and Aztecs. |
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| Then the pyramids are cut by silhouettes into a set of pentahedrons, which together constitute the centripetal pentahedron model of the visual hull. |
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| According to most beliefs, pyramids were built with the help of great armies of slaves, by the ancient pharaohs of Egypt as tombs for preserving their royal bodies. |
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| In the decussation of the pyramids, the bundles of corticospinal fibers are interposed between the ventral gray matter and the central gray substance. |
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| The French also have a penchant for pyramids with their croquembouche. |
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| The architects of later pyramids ensured that there was adequate access to underground chambers by using cut-and-cover techniques rather than tunnelling. |
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| The trigeminal alone had a spinal root which wandered down for a few centimetres past the decussation of the pyramids to finish at the level of the second cervical nerve. |
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| Some people even ventured to climb the pyramids to see the view. |
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| Also I must disagree with you on Egypt not having any step pyramids. |
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| I believe that some of the older pyramids in fact were step pyramids. |
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| He asked, somewhat surprised at seeing someone climbing over the last stone without the help of a dragoman or guide, who usually assisted tourists up the pyramids. |
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| Long and almost straight vessels, into which the efferent vessel of those tufts situated at the bases of the pyramids, divides. |
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| American author Herman Melville described Liverpool Docks as being comparable to the pyramids in the vast scale of their construction. |
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| The style is characterized by tall pyramids supporting a summit shrine adorned with a roof comb, and accessed by a single doorway. |
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| A dihexagonal pyramid is composed of two hexagonal pyramids placed base to base. |
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| Examples of triadic pyramids are known from as many as 88 archaeological sites. |
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| As many as 15 pyramids, ball courts, plazas, altars and sculpted stone shafts called stelae were found at the Maya site. |
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| In general, freestanding pyramids were shrines honouring powerful ancestors. |
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| They generally extended horizontally as opposed to the towering Maya pyramids, and often had restricted access. |
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| Mesoamerican architecture is mostly noted for its pyramids which are the largest such structures outside of Ancient Egypt. |
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| The pyramids that have been erected throughout human history serve as perfect examples of axis mundi. |
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| The pyramids are perdurable tributes to the immortality of the dignity of labor. |
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| Their favorite stops were Pago Pago and Egypt, where they rode camels and saw pyramids. |
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| The tokens in balls come in 14 different shapes, which included spheres, pyramids, ovoids, lenses and cones. |
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| The tokens inside the balls come in 14 different shapes, including spheres, pyramids, ovoids, lenses and cones, the researchers found. |
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| Mexico was the last stop for him and he was scheduled to visit the pyramids of Teotihuacan on Friday. |
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| Also listed are the pyramids of Meroe and sites nearby including Musawwarat es Sufra and Naqa. |
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| Also listed are the pyramids of Meroe and nearby sites including Naqa and Musawwarat es Sufra. |
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| When applying image pyramids, homologous points are searched and adjusted using affine transformation technique. |
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| Egyptian civilisation is renowned for its colossal pyramids, temples and monumental tombs. |
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| The builders of the pyramids, the Roman Empire and the armies of the World Wars are prior examples. |
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| The pyramids at Giza are flanked by large cemeteries containing hundreds of mastabas. |
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| But those ruins are as different as the pyramids of Yucatan are from the ziggurats of Sumer, as a Neolithic menhir in Cornwall is from the kitschy little obelisk at Trinity. |
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| Constructed between 2589 and 2504BC, the Egyptian pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, built in that order, are a testament to ancient planning and engineering. |
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| On the Giza plateau at about twenty kilometers from Cairo, it will study the pyramids of Khufu and Khafre, built by the son and grand-son of Snefru. |
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| One extraordinary thing which I saw at the pyramids must not be omitted. |
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| An advanced Mesoamerican civilization of temples, pyramids, ball courts and paved roads sprouted and grew not near a seaport or on a riverway, but deep inland at jungle oases. |
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| Heaps of stones from the quarries lie in front of the pyramids. |
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| They are often called pyramids, due to their tendency to split into an increasing number of regional divisions, the further down the pyramid one descends. |
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| But with faith healers, people meditating under pyramids and a statue with growing hair to contend with, it looks as if he might have his work cut out. |
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| About 6,000 years ago, they used lime to plaster the pyramids at Giza. |
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| The anciently written inscriptions in the pyramids can still be read. |
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| The roots of the pyramidologist or pyramidiot probably go back to the time the pyramids were built, but their flowering arrived with the antiquarians of the 19th century. |
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| As Maya society developed, and the elite became more powerful, Maya royalty developed their household shrines into the great pyramids that held the tombs of their ancestors. |
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| Teotihuacan, with its huge pyramids of the Sun and the Moon, its palaces, temples, homes, workshops, markets and avenues, is the largest pre-Hispanic city in Mesoamerica. |
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| Classic circus treats, such as unicyclists, clowns and dancers, will also make an appearance alongside musical acts, gymnasts, human pyramids and hula-hoopers. |
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| The pyramids demonstrate the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians. |
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| Traditional Christmas decorations from the nearby Ore Mountains, such as nutcrackers, 'incense smoker' figurines and Christmas pyramids, are much sought-after souvenirs. |
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