BLOCKS/LEGO CHALLENGE #1

Create a Structure with a 

Hidden Compartment

 

Did you know that the solid-looking, ancient pyramids of Egypt were built beginning 4,500 years ago with hidden entrances and compartments to safeguard the royal mummies and treasure buried inside?

 

Here are three videos about how the pyramids were built and what is inside them:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn4XOi-QPG0 (3:35)  Demystified: What’s inside Egypt’s Great Pyramid? 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMzouTzim0o (3:34)  360o Travel Inside the Great Pyramid

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1y8N0ePuF8 (21:21) Building the Pyramids of Egypt

 

Archeologists use all their detective skills to find the entrances and follow the tunnels to galleries, burial, ritual, and treasure chambers.  This is the now-uncovered entrance to the Great Pyramid of Cheops. 

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And here is a cross-section of Khufu’s Great Pyramid of Giza, where you can see the tunnels, chambers, and air shafts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A display of Lego-built pyramids in Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry includes a cross-section of the interior of Khufu’s Great Pyramid:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUPlDTp1q4M (4:24)

 

Here’s a link to a short video about building a step pyramid with Legos: 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqmn3puiWKM  (3:54) 

 

So, what do you think?  Could you build a structure – and it doesn’t have to be a pyramid – that has a tunnel to a hidden compartment in it?  Extra points if the entrance is hard to find!