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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.
Great Pyramid EG050986JHP Khufu Cheops Great Pyramid Giza Foundation Side Blocks Limestone, the largest of the Gizah site monuments and the first of the really truly huge constructions dating around 2500BC and still now one of the Wonders of the World and seen here are some of the large foundation blocks some weighing over 10 tons. Keywords: Egypt, Cairo, Giza, Gizah, upright, pyramid, burial, tombs, Khufu, Cheops, foundation, platform, blocks, erosion, soft, limestone, ancient, Egyptian, Egyptology, archaeology, gigantic, history, mortar, gypsum
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Collection: Giza Pyramids & Sphinx
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Great Pyramid EG050986JHP
Upload Date: 2005-04-20 06:42:13
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Khufu Cheops Great Pyramid Giza Foundation Side Blocks Limestone, the

largest of the Gizah site monuments and the first of the really truly huge constructions dating around 2500BC and still now one of the Wonders of the World and seen here are some of the large foundation blocks some weighing over 10 tons.
Keywords: Egypt, Cairo, Giza, Gizah, upright, pyramid, burial, tombs, Khufu, Cheops, foundation, platform, blocks, erosion, soft, limestone, ancient, Egyptian, Egyptology, archaeology, gigantic, history, mortar, gypsum