The Ancient Egyptians built the pyramids as tombs for the pharaohs. The pharaohs were buried in pyramids of different shapes and sizes from the beginning of the old kingdom to end of the middle kingdom. There are about eighty pyramids known today from Ancient Egypt. (ancientegypt.com) The oldest known pyramids, known as step pyramids, were built in the 3rd Dynasty under a king called Djoser during 2630 and 2611 B.C., throughout this time the history of royal tomb building had fallen into two main stages. In the first two dynasties, kings and nobles were buried in simple brick structures. Then, in the 3rd dynasty during 2630 and 2611 B.C. Pharaoh Djoser and Imhotep, who was Djoser’s chancellor and High Priest, designed and built the first