Correct, there are only three large pyramids in Egypt, plus the red and the bent which are practice models for the great ones. Everything else in antiquity is ziggurat size, except for Etemenanki (Babel), which was the same size as the great pyramid of Menkaure and built the same year IMHO, and which was abandoned spectacularly (while Menkaure's was abandoned when almost finished). After that the next pharaoh skipped pyramids entirely and built a mastaba instead, and architecture backed off for thousands of years.
The first one was called the collapsed pyramid, which failed because they didn't have tech, safety, or efficiency yet. The bent pyramid appears to have had its plan changed in the middle. The red pyramid was a proof of concept. Then the three biggies and the tower of Babel. Then poof.
Correct, there are only three large pyramids in Egypt, plus the red and the bent which are practice models for the great ones. Everything else in antiquity is ziggurat size, except for Etemenanki (Babel), which was the same size as the great pyramid of Menkaure and built the same year IMHO, and which was abandoned spectacularly (while Menkaure's was abandoned when almost finished). After that the next pharaoh skipped pyramids entirely and built a mastaba instead, and architecture backed off for thousands of years.
The first one was called the collapsed pyramid, which failed because they didn't have tech, safety, or efficiency yet. The bent pyramid appears to have had its plan changed in the middle. The red pyramid was a proof of concept. Then the three biggies and the tower of Babel. Then poof.
How do u know if it was the great pyramids that came first and they were trying to replicate it afterwards with no success...?