Crossword clues for giza
giza
- Home of the Great Sphinx
- Great Pyramid site
- City near the Great Pyramid
- Sphinx city
- Home of the Sphinx
- Great Sphinx site
- Egyptian megaproject site
- Egyptian city near the Sphinx
- Tourist destination on the Nile
- Sphinx's spot
- Site of the Sphinx
- Site of the Pyramids
- Pyramid plateau
- Plateau holding the Great Sphinx
- Mideast tourist center
- Great Sphinx setting
- Egyptian tourist spot
- Egyptian tourist area
- Egyptian site of the Great Pyramid
- A Pharaonic capital
- Sphinx site
- Cairo suburb
- Egyptian pyramids locale
- City on the Nile
- Egypt's third-largest city
- City with the Great Sphinx
- Egyptian pyramid city
- Suburb of Cairo
- Pyramid city close to Cairo
- Great Sphinx locale
- An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo
- Site of three Great Pyramids and the Sphinx
- City near the Sphinx
- City near the famous Sphinx
- City near the Egyptian pyramids
- City near Cairo
- El ___, city near Cairo
- Pyramid site
- Great Pyramid locale
- City near Memphis
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
place in Egypt, from Arabic Er-ges-her "beside the high," i.e., the Great Pyramid.
Wikipedia
Giza (; sometimes spelt ''Gizah ''or Jizah; ; ), is the third- largest city in Egypt. It is located on the west bank of the Nile, some southwest of central Cairo. Along with Cairo Governorate, Shubra El-Kheima, Helwan, 6th October City and Obour, the five form Greater Cairo metropolis. The city of Giza is the capital of the Giza Governorate, and is located near the northeast border of this governorate in coordinates. It is located right on the banks of the River Nile. The city's population was 2,681,863 in the 2006 national census, while the governorate had 6,272,571 at the same census. Its large population made it the world's second largest suburb in 2006, tied with Incheon, South Korea and Quezon City, Philippines, second only to Yokohama, Japan.
Giza is most famous as the location of the Giza Plateau: the site of some of the most impressive ancient monuments in the world, including a complex of ancient Egyptian royal mortuary and sacred structures, including the Great Sphinx, the Great Pyramid of Giza, and a number of other large pyramids and temples. Giza has always been a focal point in Egypt's history due to its location close to Memphis, the ancient capital.
The Great Pyramid of Giza at one time was advocated (1884) as the location for the Prime Meridian, a reference point used for determining a base longitude.
Usage examples of "giza".
When the ashes blew away, they saw that which had not been seen in 10,000 years, predating both Tiahuanaco and Giza, according to the time wizards.
And everything historians and archeologists had written about the El Giza Sphinx was wrong.
Izzy was sprung, and all tours of the Giza funerary complex were put on hold.
Frank Domingo, a senior forensic officer of the New York City Police Department, has concluded, after rigorous examination and analysis, that there is no actual similarity between the face of the Giza Sphinx and the face on the statue of Chephren previously supposed to be its model.
But the pyramid at Giza with its uncanny forecast of world history and ultimate destruction was already built before your people arrived on earth.
Stuff hidden on a computer was technically discoverable, but, theoretically, you could also take the pyramids of Giza apart stone by stone to see what was hidden under them.
The Pharaoh through the narrow tunnels of the Great Pyramid of Giza Khufu, more popularly known as Cheops, was responsible down to the bottom chamber and, for a year prior, complex for the building of the greatest pyramid, farthest to the diplomatic effort to be granted permission to bring the northeast.
If so, then has enough survived for us to compare the model with computer simulations of the skies above Giza in previous epochs and thus arrive at an accurate archaeoastronomical dating for the ‘First Time’, i.
From the pyramids of Menkaure, Khafre, and Khufu at Giza, to the banks of the Nile in Nubia open the portal, pave the path to the table of Eve, to the place of Light where Khepre, Re, and Amen cycle, oh great Queen Aset, mother of Kemet, take your daughter through the door!
By mimicking the sky pattern of Orion’s belt in 10,500 bc the three great Pyramids of Giza mark a very significant moment in the 20,000-year precessional cycle of these stars—the lowest point in their slide up and down the meridian, when (as seen from the latitude of Giza) they culminated at an altitude of 9 degrees 20 minutes above the horizon (C).
Ahmed Ali was one of the most reliable and persistent dragomen at Giza.
At any rate, as we shall demonstrate in Parts III and IV, it is a fact that the Duat sky-region described in the ancient Egyptian texts was dominated by the constellations of Orion and Leo—both of which appear to have been ‘imaged’ on the ground at Giza (with the former additionally targeted by the southern shaft of the King’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid)—and by the star Sirius, which was targeted by the southern shaft of the Queen’s Chamber.
We have also seen how the centre of the Duat was called Rostau and how Rostau, too, existed in both cosmic and terrestrial realms: in the heavens it was characterized by the three stars of Orion’s belt and on earth by the three great Pyramids of Giza.
Though they might easily have been there, along with the lost Ark of the Covenant and the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Cairo came up at us marked by the geometrical square of the pyramid at Giza.