Why Did So Many Ancient Peoples Build Pyramids?

[SonOfNun]

Because they are easy to build.

But, don't they all use them as a temple of some kind?

 

[Willamena]

But, don't they all use them as a temple of some kind?

If I remember correctly, the Egyptian ones were just big crypts, and the Babylonian ones were tiered planters.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

Why did so many ancient peoples build pyramids?

Another answer could be...
Because it takes an awful lot of ancient people to build a pyramid.:run:

 

[Fredx10]

I have two thoughts on this.

1. Pyramids, as a block structure, are quite easy to build. There's some professor in France (I think it was) who has just proved his theory on how the pyramids were really built, and it amazed fellow world associates. (I tried to find a link, but couldn't. Maybe someone else is aware of this guy?)

2. Pyramids are believed to have certain preservative powers, which would be perfect for their dead kings etc. The power is most concentrated at 2/3rds up from the floor of the pyramid. I have actually done tests on this theory back in the '80s for a school project and proved it quite successfully on meats and dairy products. (A funny story - we forgot about the project after the results and found the pyramids still in a cupboard in the science room about 6 months later with the products still present. The products under the pyramid were still in a decent condition whereas the product outside of the pyramid was totally rotted away. FYI, the pyramids I built were only a wood frame, not solid enclosed sides.) There's also the theory that if you wear a pyramid frame as a hat, one can improve brain power. I didn't test that one. Perhaps I should have. I might've passed physics!!

1) If you think hoisting a 50-ton stone block 100 feet without a crane is easy, OK.

2) If you wear a pyramid for a hat, you deserve what you get.

 

[Fredx10]

I have two thoughts on this.

1. Pyramids, as a block structure, are quite easy to build. There's some professor in France (I think it was) who has just proved his theory on how the pyramids were really built, and it amazed fellow world associates. (I tried to find a link, but couldn't. Maybe someone else is aware of this guy?)

2. Pyramids are believed to have certain preservative powers, which would be perfect for their dead kings etc. The power is most concentrated at 2/3rds up from the floor of the pyramid. I have actually done tests on this theory back in the '80s for a school project and proved it quite successfully on meats and dairy products. (A funny story - we forgot about the project after the results and found the pyramids still in a cupboard in the science room about 6 months later with the products still present. The products under the pyramid were still in a decent condition whereas the product outside of the pyramid was totally rotted away. FYI, the pyramids I built were only a wood frame, not solid enclosed sides.) There's also the theory that if you wear a pyramid frame as a hat, one can improve brain power. I didn't test that one. Perhaps I should have. I might've passed physics!!

1) If you think hoisting a 50-ton stone block 100 feet without a crane is easy, OK.

2) If you wear a pyramid for a hat, you deserve what you get.

 

[Truth_Faith13]

Why did so many ancient peoples build pyramids? Did it have anything to do with the fact that no pyramid building society had yet invented the true arch, which would have allowed them to build tall structures that were not pyramids?

Please Note: I'm not interested in speculations about aliens here. If you want to speculate about aliens building pyramids, start your own thread on it.

Do you mean why did they build pyramids? - pyramids being the main word.
or
Do you mean why did they build many pyramids? - building mainy being the main word and question..

As for why it was pyramids, I dont know - maybe they though they lasted longer? or hadnt it go something to do with a quicker way to the afterlife?

As for why they actually built them, it was their way of staying immortal if you like - people would remember them throughout history. I remember in one film one of the pharohs saying - I want people 1000years from now to know who I am! and we do - its because of these pyramids, that we have the history of how they lived, died and what the culture was like back then. They also needed a big place to place all their belongings as in egyptian times they liked to take their wealth with them to the afterlife - whether that was to retain there status or payment to actually enter the afterlife, I dont know!