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Photographs of the three Giza pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, the Sphinx, temples, Solar Barque museum and western cemetery mastabas, including the Light and Sound Show night views.
Sphinx Giza Vista EG02003jhp Giza Egypt Sphinx Cheops Khufu Khafre Chephren Menkaure Pyramids Vista show the context of this giant carved limestone lion statue with human head is somewhat of an enigma, but most likely carved out of an outcrop as an inspirational homage to the Pharaoh Khafre some 2500BC whose pyramid is directly behind it, although some attribute it to the previous Khufu who built the first and Greatest Pyramid. This huge prone lion figure with a human face faces the east to the rising sun and the modern day Cairo and is a very popular destination for the thousands that visit the Giza plateau and here viewed from the most accessible point on causeway approaching his Valley Temple. Keywords: keywords: Egypt, Cairo, Egyptian, Giza, Sphinx, pyramid, Khufu, Cheops, Great, Khafre, Chephren, Menkaure, soft, erosion, limestone, Valley, Temple, causeway, landscape, vista, panorama, lion, paws, haunch, face, nemes, headdress, enclosure, excavation, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Giza Pyramids & Sphinx
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Sphinx Giza Vista EG02003jhp
Upload Date: 2002-10-21 06:22:56
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Giza Egypt Sphinx Cheops Khufu Khafre Chephren Menkaure Pyramids Vista

show the context of this giant carved limestone lion statue with human head is somewhat of an enigma, but most likely carved out of an outcrop as an inspirational homage to the Pharaoh Khafre some 2500BC whose pyramid is directly behind it, although some attribute it to the previous Khufu who built the first and Greatest Pyramid. This huge prone lion figure with a human face faces the east to the rising sun and the modern day Cairo and is a very popular destination for the thousands that visit the Giza plateau and here viewed from the most accessible point on causeway approaching his Valley Temple.
Keywords: keywords: Egypt, Cairo, Egyptian, Giza, Sphinx, pyramid, Khufu, Cheops, Great, Khafre, Chephren, Menkaure, soft, erosion, limestone, Valley, Temple, causeway, landscape, vista, panorama, lion, paws, haunch, face, nemes, headdress, enclosure, excavation, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient