Egyptian pyramids and Mayan pyramids

Egyptian pyramids and Mayan pyramids

     People have made strange things at different places. Among them gigantic pyramids are some strong human constructions. In the history people in Egypt built the largest pyramids in the world. However, pyramids were constructed in Mexico by Mayan people, too. There are some similarities and differences between these pyramids.

     Both the Mayan and Egyptian pyramids are enormous and they stand as memorials to the ancient civilizations. The Mayans built shrines, temples and pyramids were temples to the gods and their kings. Most of the Mayan pyramids were temple to the gods. The Mayans did sometimes bury their rulers. But a temple always remained on the top of the pyramids no matter what.

     Egyptian pyramids were primarily built as the burial site for their rulers. Although they had built temples also, but the temple would be somewhere near the pyramid or next to it. Temples were made for memorial purposes. They were not placed on the top of the structure like that of the Mayan pyramids. Egypt’s pyramids comes to a point at the top whereas Mayan pyramids were purposefully constructed with a platform to have a temple and shrines built at the top of them. Also Mayan pyramids were not pyramidal. Although they also have polygonal base like the Egyptian pyramids, they don’t have a pointed apex.

     The Mayan people used to their pyramids for worship but Egyptians never did so because they did not want to disturb their king who was taking rest in the pyramid after death. Furthermore, the Mayan people coloured their pyramids with different colours but the Egyptian people never coloured their pyramids.

     The building materials are also different in these pyramids. The Mayan used the limestone to make the pyramids and they didn’t make use of metal tools to shape the stone there. In contrast to that, the Egyptian used copper tools and saws to shape the stones for their pyramids.