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Contents 1 What is a pyramid? 4 2 Before the pyramids 6 3 A revolutionary new tomb: the Step Pyramid 8 Building the Step Pyramid 12 4 The first true pyramids 14 The Meidum Pyramid 16 The 'Bent' Pyramid and the Red Pyramid 18 5 The Giza Pyramids 20 The Great Pyramid of Khufu 22 The Pyramid of Khafre 25 The Pyramid of Menkaure 28 6 The Pyramid of Unas at Saqqara 30 Inside the Unas Pyramid 32 7 The end of the great era of pyramid-building 34 A king with two pyramids 36 Ahmose I at Abydos 38 8 How the Egyptians built their pyramids 40 9 Non-royal pyramids in Egypt 42 10 Pyramids outside Egypt 44 11 Eternal pyramids 46 Map, timeline 47 Index and further reading 48
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Pyramids -- Egypt -- Juvenile literature.