why do the pyramids count as a grannary in every city?

can anyone come up with a better idea?

or are the pyramids just a sight for sore eyed archeologists?

give us a few ideas.....for any wonder

here's one...the dublin spire, counts as a knitting ring in everyone of your cities (keeps the older women happy, and the people short of jumpers that have holes in their socks)

the Egyptians made pyramids and a lot of wheat also.

I suppose the rationale has something to do with impressive amounts of slave labor and what it takes to feed them.

A temple in every city is better.

A big cultural bonus is probably more accurate.

i think wonders are a bit over played in civ3, in modern times especially.

the UN should be an independent group, who ever builds the wonder initialises it. they convene in wars to establish peace etc etc, but should have actual blue-helmet units and actual diplomacy, kofi anan, nyetan yahoo, (or summin...)

the pyramids would only be correct if you had a long list of civ leaders who take over after anothers death

I was watching a documentary on the building of the Pyramids a while ago. They had a huge grain shipping and storage (and baking) infrastructure in place to feed all of the workers.

i saw that their was effectively enough acricultural indusrty in a small shanty town to feed 10 times as many people who worked on the pyramids themselves

IMHO the granaries MIGHT reflect Egypt's being just about the first kingdom beyond city-state size - -ca 2750 BCE -- and had no rival until Babylon ca. 1300 BCE. So the granaries -- and the significant population growth which attends these -- "represents" a millenium-and-a-half head start on infrastructure over everybody else.

BTW this is just one reason why games of Civ progress so ahistorically fast, insofar as Advances go -- Civ starts of course in 4000 BCE, yet, historically, in 2750, COPPER working had not yet spread as far west as Italy or as far east as the Indus; by 2250, writing in that part of the world was still limited to Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Mohenjo-daro / Harappa civ on the Indus.

-Oz