The Egyptian pyramids look very similar to Sumerian ziggurats and some people believe that the Egyptians were even influenced by the Sumerians in how to build them while others believed that they had little to no influence considering they were a great distance apart. The Egyptians probably did not base their building technique for pyramids on Sumerian ziggurats because, they were used for different purposes, the Sumerians had little influence on Egyptian culture, and the features contained inside a pyramid differed from those of a ziggurat.
“The Pharaoh believed, like any commoner among his people, that every living body was inhabited by a double, or ka, which need not die with the breath; and that the ka would survive all the more completely