The egyptian pyramids are tombs.
They developed clearly from earlier forms of tombs.
The kings of the first and second dynasties were burried in block-shaped so-called mastaba tombs. The more elaborate of those had an outer wall with a regular pattern of niches. They were separated into several rooms with solid walls (no doors), but only wooden roofs, the biggst room in the middle was the burial chamber, topped by a small tumulus.
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(This is just a random image I choose because it shows the niched wall so good. The tumulus is not included, because it was not known to the time of this old publicatioin).
In the third dynasty, the kings were buried in step pyramids, from which only the first one, the one of Djoser, is preserved
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You can clearly see how the whole complex is a magnified version of the mastaba with the pyramid in place of the tumulus.
The pyramid was also not invented at the spot, first there was built a block-shaped structure (like the less elaborate mastabas), wich was latewr enlarged twice. Then a first step pyramid was built over it wich in turn was enlarged to the pyramid present today.
The pyramid complex and the pyramid itself is filled up with funeral structures.
The first king of the forth dynasty, Senefru, tried to build a true pyramid (not stepped, with flat faces), after two failed attempts he succeded. His succesors built the big pyramids at Gizah.
In the fifth and later dynasties, the pyramids were much smaller again, but richly decorated with funeral texts.
No corpses have been found in the pyramids of the old kingdom (except for the Djoser pyramid, but these were probably of later date), but this is only natural. Most tombs except the poorest have been robbed in antique or medieval times. This is equally true for most of the richer private (non-royal) tombs of all times and all of the tombs of the new kingdom kings in the valley of the kings except Tutankhamon and the person in KV55 (Akhenaten?).
The great pyramid of Chufu was opened in the 9th century by the Calife Abdullah al-Mamun (son of Harun al-Rashid), and according to legend (no formal account of the excavation has survived), he indeed found the intact mummy of the king.
Of the old kingdom pyramids, the most impressive are the ones from the forth dynasty, and these are the ones wich are at first glance show the least evidence of their funeral contexts. But still, they contain burial chambers with sarcophages. They are part of a royal funeral complex with temples, and moreover, are part of huge cementeries with many private tombs around them. They also fit clearly in the developement from the third to the fifth dynasty pyramids, wich are more visible identified as tombs, the first by architectonic context, the latter by textual evidence.
In the middle kingdom the pyramids were bigger again, but built in mudbrick rather than stone and are therefore poorly preserved. They have of course still funeral chambers, sometimes with sarcophages, sometimes the latter have been integrated into the architecture in the form of hewn-out "basins". During the middle kingdom, the underground part of the pyramids grow larger (due to the Osirian cult gaining importance), and in size and shape develope into the form of the new kingdom royal tombs.
In the new kingdom, the kings were burried in underground tombs hewn in the rock of the valley of the king. As the pyramid as a tomb form was abandoned by the kings, it was adopted by the commoners (just like the mastaba almost a millenium before). Small pyramids became parts of the tombs of the wealthy, again clearly funeral (those tombs do not differ from other private tombs of the time without pyramids, and in some of them even the corpses were still found).
Gold Bearer wrote:pyramids tend to be built over flowing water close to the surface
In most place of the world, you will find water close to the surface, a few meters at most. Being built in the desert, on raised ground, the Egyptian pyramids are in places where the groundwater level is actually deeper than in most of the surrounding country. Many of them have deep underground structures, which would not be possible in places with high ground water.
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As for the "crystal pyramids" the two sources you cite are quite strange. They clearly come from the para-science scene. Those people tend to believe everything if only it somehow seems to "contradict the mainstream".
It fits that they do not just state the facts of the (possible) finds as the archeological sensation they could be, but instantly start to speculate about alchemy, the bermuda triangle mystery (wich covers a good part of the north atlantic, so something being "in the bermuda triangle" means next to nothing) and conspiracy theories.
But at least the articles cite names and dates, so one could base a more serious research on them.
the pyramid in Bosnia is very real and not naturally formed.
Not according to any source I found so far, and from the images and descriptions I would also say myself it looks very natural.
I really do not have the time now to do any serious research about both the "crystal" and the Bosnia pyramids, but I find them definitely worth a closer look, even if I do not really expect there will be real eveidence of them being artificial structures (or even exist, in the case of the Atlantic ones), I'm open for almost everything.
It would be one hell of a hoax if it's a money making scam.
I don't think it is. I think the people involved really believe in what they say. They are just
properly probably mistaken.
But then again, even if the Bosnian, Atlantean or some other obscure "pyramids" proof to be real in the end, they are hugely different from the well known Egyptian, Mesoamerican and Chinese pyramids, which in turn are very different in form, function and even building time, from one another. None of them are part of a global concept of energy-managing devices.
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