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Also Known As Pyramids of Gizeh • Ahrāmāt al-Jīzah
Date c. 2456 -

Did You Know?

  • While large-scale pyramid building ended after the Sixth Dynasty, small pyramids were still built for the next millennium.
  • Scholars use the art and text on the inside of the pyramids to research Ancient Egyptian language and culture.
  • Pyramids became magnets for grave robbers leading later kings to hide their tombs inside cliffs.

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Pyramids of Giza
Pyramid of Khafre
Pyramid of Menkaure
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Pyramid of Khafre: mortuary temple
Great Pyramid of Giza
Pyramids of Giza
Great Pyramid of Giza: cross section of interior
Great Sphinx and pyramid of Khafre
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Why is the Great Sphinx's nose missing?
Who built the Pyramids of Giza?
Travel down the Nile to discover important ancient Egyptian cultural sites such as the Pyramids of Giza
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The Battle of the Pyramids
Battle of the Pyramids

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Egypt
Egypt
Travel down the Nile to discover important ancient Egyptian cultural sites such as the Pyramids of Giza
ancient Egypt
Great Sphinx and Pyramid of Khafre
Giza
Egypt

Key People

Sir Flinders Petrie, detail of an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1900; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Flinders Petrie
British archaeologist
Mariette
Auguste Mariette
French archaeologist
Belzoni, oil painting by W. Brockedon; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Giovanni Battista Belzoni
Italian archaeologist
Pyramid of Menkaure
George Andrew Reisner
American archaeologist
Great Pyramid of Giza
Khufu
king of Egypt
Menkaure flanked by gods
Menkaure
king of Egypt
Khafre
Khafre
king of Egypt

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