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    Where Are the Great Pyramids?
    Where Are the Great Pyramids?
    Where Are the Great Pyramids?
    Ebook109 pages30 minutes

    Where Are the Great Pyramids?

    By Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler, Who HQ and Jerry Hoare

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    The Great Pyramids of Egypt--all kids over the age of five recognize them instantly. These massive tombs were built thousands of years ago, and still no one knows exactly how the ancient Egyptians did it! In this informative account, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler tell the story of the powerful pharaohs who commissioned the pyramids at Giza and offer a fascinating look at the culture of the afterlife in ancient Egypt, explaining exactly how mummies were made. Easy to read and scrupulously researched, this explores the mysteries that have attracted countless visitors to the pyramids for centuries.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Young Readers Group
    Release dateSep 15, 2015
    ISBN9780399539671
    Where Are the Great Pyramids?
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    Dorothy Hoobler

    Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler have written many award-winning books for adults and young adults. Their young adult mystery set in medieval Japan won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Their ten-book series on American ethnic groups, published by Oxford University Press, received many favorable reviews from such publications as The New York Times and the Miami Herald. The Hooblers’ other books for adults include The Monsters, which tells the story of Mary Shelley and the four people who helped inspire her classic novel Frankenstein; and The Crimes of Paris, a collection of famous French crimes that was excerpted in Vanity Fair. Dorothy has a master’s degree in American history from New York University. 

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      Where Are the Great Pyramids? - Dorothy Hoobler

      Where Are the Great Pyramids?

      The Great Pyramids of Egypt are the most famous buildings in the world. They stand outside Cairo, the capital and biggest city in Egypt. Almost everybody has seen a picture of them. They are also among the world’s largest buildings, the oldest buildings still standing, and the most closely studied buildings. In ancient times, they were one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

      The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

      Greek tourists of the first and second centuries BC could buy guidebooks that listed spectacular places to visit. Seven of these became known as the Seven Wonders of the World. Besides the Great Pyramids, they are:

      1) The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The king of the Babylonian Empire married a woman from a land where many trees and plants grew. She became homesick. To please her, the king had fabulous gardens built on terraces.

      2) The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus. The king of Lydia, known for his great wealth, had a beautiful temple built at Ephesus, a city in modern-day Turkey.

      3) The Statue of Zeus at Olympia. This gigantic statue was covered with ivory, gold, and precious stones.

      4) The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. Mausolus, a wealthy governor in the Persian Empire, ordered a fabulous tomb built for himself and his wife. Today, the word mausoleum is used to mean any large tomb.

      5) The Colossus of Rhodes. To celebrate winning a war, the people of Rhodes built an enormous statue of the sun god Helios in their harbor.

      6) The Lighthouse of Alexandria. The successor to Alexander the Great built a huge lighthouse in the harbor of this Egyptian city to guide ships in the Mediterranean.

      Today, all of those wonders have disappeared—except the pyramids.

      The pyramids were not built for people to live in. They were tombs for the pharaohs, the rulers of Egypt. Pharaohs were the link between the Egyptian people and their gods. In fact, the pharaohs themselves were regarded as gods. Whatever the pharaohs wished people to do, it was done. Thus, when pharaohs commanded thousands of people to work for many years to build their tombs, they did it.

      There are more than one hundred pyramids still standing in Egypt. But many of them are little more than heaps of rubble. The three largest are known as the Great Pyramids. The oldest of the three was built about 4,500 years ago.

      The ancient Egyptians believed the pharaoh would live in another world after death. That’s why it was important to preserve his body and place it somewhere safe—like inside a pyramid.

      In an elaborate process, the body was

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