Many people believed the pyramid builders built the pyramids as a ramp to the heavens for the Pharaohs. An inscription found in a tomb reads: "A ramp to the sky is built for him, that he may go up to the sky on it.... He flies as a bird and settles as a beetle on the empty seat on the ship of Re."

It took many ships to build the pyramids because there were so many blocks. The blocks were very large and very heavy, so one ship could only take one block at a time. 
 

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