Giza sights

Usage examples of pyramids.

Indeed we think it possible that the Sphinx and the three great Pyramids may offer knowledge of the genesis of civilization itself.

Khufu Pyramid, and southeast of the pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure respectively.

Director-General of the Giza Pyramids, fell upon them, suddenly and unexpectedly, like the proverbial ton of bricks.

Giza necropolis, site of the Great Sphinx and the three great Pyramids of Egypt, is, by any standards, an extraordinary architectural and archaeological puzzle.

This is not only because of the many remarkable physical and engineering characteristics of the principal Pyramids and temples, but also because all of these monuments are essentially uninscribed and anonymous.

There are no other texts of any kind in the Great Pyramid, or in the Pyramids attributed to Khafre and Menkaure.

Pyramids lined up along the eastern face of the Great Pyramid, and the three other satellite Pyramids lying near the south-western edge of the site, are similarly bereft of inscriptions.

Sphinx Temple and the Valley Temple are concerned because their original constructed height was much lower than that of the Pyramids and they therefore could have been approached by relatively short 1-in-10 ramps.

Sir Richard Francis Burton, the British explorer and adventurer, visited Egypt and the Pyramids of Giza.

The entrances to both Pyramids are in their north faces and take the form of cramped passageways sloping downwards at an angle of 26 degrees, before levelling off to join horizontal corridors under the monument.

Orion constellation and the ground-plan of the three Pyramids of Giza.

However, note how the belt stars and the Milky Way appear out of kilter and askew in relation to the ground plan of the three Pyramids and the Nile.

Instead we notice that the dominant axis of the three stars and the Milky Way lies tilted conspicuously askew relative to the dominant axis of the three Pyramids and the Nile.

Nile mirroring the Milky Way and with the three Pyramids and the belt stars identically disposed in relation to the meridian.

It is this pattern that is reproduced on the ground by the three great Pyramids of Giza.