RIC-6946 The Comprehension Box 1 - Sample student cards

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Egypt is famous for its pyramids. They are enormous buildings with a
square base and four triangle-shaped sides that come to a point at the
top. These buildings have been in Egypt for thousands of years—so long
that no-one today really knows how or why they were built.
People who study graves, buildings and tools from the past are called
archaeologists. They know that pyramids were made with thousands
of large, very heavy stone blocks. Each stone block had to be cut and
shaped to fit perfectly by stonemasons. Moving and lifting these blocks
without machines would have been very hard. They think the Egyptian
people used ropes to pull the heavy blocks up slopes made with mud.
When they were finished, the pyramids would have been smooth.
Many archaeologists have studied the pyramids to try to find out more
about them. Inside most pyramids, a carefully buried body and treasure
have been found. Because of this, most archaeologists think each
pyramid was built to bury an Egyptian king or queen, called a pharaoh.
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After a pharaoh died, his or her body was sometimes
put in a pyramid with gold, treasures and even animals.
Sadly, because many pyramids had treasures inside,
nearly all of them were robbed before they could be
studied. However, archaeologists have still been able
to find out interesting things about these great big
graves. The burial place in a pyramid was hidden in
a maze of tunnels. Sometimes, a secret door leading
to the burial place was hidden behind a statue.
These things would have made it harder for the grave
robbers to find.
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