Ah Sneferu ... the OG who started this whole pyramid for burial chambers trend. If I'm not mistaken, before this fella, royal tombs were buried (concealed) in caves dug into mountain sides - far from Cairo. This guy Sneferu thought "why don't we build a mountain like tomb right here?"
The reason it is "bent" is because they ran out of boulders and so had to reduce the pitch to reduce the number of blocks required to finish the project.
Yes. Buried, then concealed, then Sneferu's attempts via "mastabas" (Arabic for "bench"), building mastabas over mastabas for proof of concept of a pyramid. These projects were on the scale of lifetimes. These were incredible engineers.
Wasnt it the other way around? I thought the valley of the kings/queens/workers were after the pyramids and due to the fact the pyramids drew too much attention to the site from graverobbers (tomb-raiders? :P).
> The reason it is "bent" is because they ran out of boulders and so had to reduce the pitch to reduce the number of blocks required to finish the project.
The reason given in the article is not the whole story either. When the bent pyramid was under construction the ‘collapsed’ pyramid at Medium collapsed. This probably contributed to some last minute design changes for the bent pyramid.
The reason it is "bent" is because they ran out of boulders and so had to reduce the pitch to reduce the number of blocks required to finish the project.