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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.
Valley Temple Giza EG02027jhp Valley Temple Inside Giza Khafre Granite Blocks roof alabaster floor looking at the interior through this structure of huge limestone and granite blocks and roof supports. Once there would have been 23 diorite statues of the king standing by each column in the holed areas but only one survives in the Cairo Museum. Keywords: Egypt, Cairo, Giza, Gizah, upright, Khafre, Chephren, upright, mortuary, causeway, Valley, Temple, entrance, granite, red, lined, blocks, limestone, alabaster, floor, ancient, Egyptian, Egyptology, archaeology, history
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Giza Pyramids & Sphinx
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Valley Temple Giza EG02027jhp
Upload Date: 2002-10-21 06:56:29
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Valley Temple Inside Giza Khafre Granite Blocks roof alabaster floor

looking at the interior through this structure of huge limestone and granite blocks and roof supports. Once there would have been 23 diorite statues of the king standing by each column in the holed areas but only one survives in the Cairo Museum.
Keywords: Egypt, Cairo, Giza, Gizah, upright, Khafre, Chephren, upright, mortuary, causeway, Valley, Temple, entrance, granite, red, lined, blocks, limestone, alabaster, floor, ancient, Egyptian, Egyptology, archaeology, history