The ancient Egyptians didn't build the pyramids. They adopted them.
Egyptian priests told Greek historian Herodotus, that the pyramids had always been there.
Egyptian priests told Greek historian Herodotus, that the pyramids had always been there.
No, as a matter of fact, they told him nothing of the kind. He discusses various pyramids a bunch of times, and not once does anything of that kind every come up. He talks about where some of the stone was quarried for the "Memphis pyramids" (Giza and Abu Roash), describes a couple of Middle Kingdom pyramids that were still in good shape in his time (they were built of mud brick, and didn't hold up as well as the masonry pyramids), etc.