Scientists classify redwoods according to the rules of taxonomy. The discipline within biology concerned with classifying living things, including redwoods, is taxonomy. Itâs a difficult and inexact science encompassing different camps that often disagree.ortunately, there is some solid ground in the form of a general hierarchy that is widely accepted. This scheme features seven levels of classification. They are, in descending order: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species.
57-58, et. al. The pyramid was supposed to protect the pharaoh's body from the Nile, wild animals, and robbers. The Egyptians believed that they were born with a double, another self, called the ka. When the body died a soul called the ba flew out, sent a life spark through the ka, and then traveled to the other world.
A unique feature built inside Khafreâs pyramid complex was the Great Sphinx, a guardian statue carved in limestone with the head of a man and the body of a lion. It was the largest statue in the ancient world, measuring 240 feet long and 66 feet high. In the 18th dynasty (c. 1500 B.C.) the Great Sphinx would come to be worshiped itself, as the image of a local form of the god Horus. The southernmost pyramid at Giza was built for Khafreâs son Menkaure (2532-2503 B.C.).