Building the Pyramids

Description

Understand how the pyramids were built: thousands of workers moved enormous stone blocks using ramps, rollers, and sledges, the work was organised by the pharaoh's officials, and the design evolved from flat-topped mastabas to step pyramids (like Djoser's) to the smooth-sided Great Pyramid — and know that later pharaohs were buried in hidden rock-cut tombs in the Valley of the Kings

Mastery Evidence

• ✓ Describe at least two methods used to move and raise heavy stone blocks
• ✓ Explain that pyramid design changed over time from simple tombs to the Great Pyramid
• ✓ Explain why later pharaohs chose hidden tombs in the Valley of the Kings instead of pyramids