8 sentences with 'pyramid'
Example sentences and phrases with the word pyramid and other words derived from it.
• « At the centre of each city was a huge temple called a ziggurat, or step pyramid, some of which still survives today. »
• « Its king, Djoser, was the first to commission a huge tomb to house his remains when he died: the first pyramid. »
• « The Great Pyramid of Khufu, the largest pyramid of the period, contained over 2.5 million stone blocks, each weighing approximately 2.5 tons. »
• « We arrived in Cairo. We immediately went to see the pyramids and to walk the corridors of the pyramid of Cheops until we reached the burial chamber, with a surprised and excited spirit. »
• « This biblical text has become famous for the moral teaching it conveys: God reacts by differentiating the languages in the face of the pride of the men who wanted to reach heaven with a tower. As for the setting of the story, there is no doubt that the tower of Babel is the famous tower of Babylon, the 90-metre high step pyramid. »
• « The funerary building was covered with sand in the desert area extending south of the pyramid area near Cairo. »
• « The Czechoslovak engineer Karl Drbal devoted part of his life to studying unusual forms of energy, and found that the scale model of the Cheops pyramid was something like a resonant cavity, with dehydrating properties, possessing a strange energy that was related to its North-South orientation. »