Just thought I would throw in some information from The Cleveland Museum of Art:
"We know what the Egyptians ate from pictures painted on tomb walls of food being prepared and eaten and from the remains of food left as offerings in tombs. Bread and beer were the main foods for many people in Egypt. Bread was made from a grain called emmer-wheat. As the wheat was ground into a flour, small bits of stone and sand often got mixed in and made the bread hard to chew. The teeth of many skeletons that remain from the time are worn down from eating the bread. Beer was made from a grain called barley. It was much thicker and more nutritious than the beer that is made now and was considered more of a food than a drink. Workers were paid with food rations. Emmer-wheat and barley were the most important items, but workers also received many of the vegetables that we eat today such as beans, onions, garlic, lettuce, and cucumbers. For all but the most wealthy Egyptians meat was a luxury that was only enjoyed at festivals and on special occasions. (Animals were also used as a source of fat and milk used in making cheeses.) The wealthy also drank wine made from grapes. The Egyptians used honey instead of sugar to make cakes and to sweeten beer."
"A pyramid is a massive structure built as a tomb or grave to house and protect the body of a pharaoh for the afterlife and as a monument to honor the pharaoh. It has four triangular sides that meet at a point. Pyramids were made from huge blocks of stone. The largest surviving pyramid is the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Cheops, (located near present-day Cairo). It covers an area of thirteen acres and is made up of two and a quarter million blocks, which each weigh five-thousand pounds on average. Before pyramids were constructed with smooth sides, the sides of the earliest pyramids looked like steps. These stepped pyramids might have symbolized a stairway to heaven which during some periods might have been seen as a way for the dead king to climb up into the sky to become a star. "
"The stones of the pyramid were cut from rock quarries with tools such as chisels, saws, mallets, hammers, and wedges. Much of the stone used in the construction of the pyramids came from areas very close to the building site so that it did not need to be transported long distances. To make it easier to move the stones to the pyramid they were placed on wooden sleds that were pulled through canals of water leading to the building. No one knows exactly how the large, incredibly heavy blocks were first lifted and then put into place. Some of the different methods that have been suggested are the use of cranes or the use of a complicated system of levers and rockers which were most probably used to position the large blocks. It also seems certain that ramps were used to make it easier to move the blocks. These would have been a great technical achievement in themselves. As the pyramid grew taller the ramps would be extended. Remains of long straight ramps have been discovered, but it is also believed that a series of smaller ramps, forming a type of scaffolding, would also have been used and later discarded."
www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/egypt_pyramids.htm 
