Architectural elements of a Pyramid


Pyramids were usually built within a funeral includes several facilities. The enclosure wall was mostly built of mud brick and embraces the whole group.

The Valley Temple is the main entrance to a reception area for the king of the neighborhood when he came to inspect the work, as it was performed funerary rites for the deceased king; and perhaps also being his mummification.

The causeway connecting the valley temple and the mortuary temple, and the roof is open in this way earlier pyramids and was often covered in subsequent times by the roof of a rectangular slot in the middle to let a little light.

The final religious rites for the deceased king performed in the mortuary temple and cult shrines; before his body was moved to its burial inside the pyramid.

The pits were holes in the ground to include boats that were used in the transfer of the royal body and the funerary furniture; after that lifted and stacked inside the drill, to be used by the king in the hereafter - wandered in the world of the dead: or accompanied the sun god.

The king was the deceased buried pyramid - any cemetery property; either inside or underneath it.

It was built as a royal tomb or monument, and did not have any other use.