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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.
Khafre Pyramid Casing EG050999JHP Khafre Chephren Pyramid Tura Limestone Casing Top Telephoto Crop capping the second largest structure on the Gizah plateau built by Pharaoh Chephren around 2500BC and the only one of the Giza pyramids still to have retained any of its finished state. The most completely covered of the original pyramids is the Bent Pyramid at Dashur, a predecessor of the Giza monuments. Keywords: Egypt, Cairo, Giza, Gizah, landscape, pyramid, top, tomb, Khafre, Chephren, blocks, erosion, soft, limestone, casing, Tura, Turah, white, shining, ancient, Egyptian, Egyptology, archaeology, history, telephoto, closeup
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Giza Pyramids & Sphinx
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Khafre Pyramid Casing EG050999JHP
Upload Date: 2005-04-20 08:02:33
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Khafre Chephren Pyramid Tura Limestone Casing Top Telephoto Crop capping

the second largest structure on the Gizah plateau built by Pharaoh Chephren around 2500BC and the only one of the Giza pyramids still to have retained any of its finished state. The most completely covered of the original pyramids is the Bent Pyramid at Dashur, a predecessor of the Giza monuments.
Keywords: Egypt, Cairo, Giza, Gizah, landscape, pyramid, top, tomb, Khafre, Chephren, blocks, erosion, soft, limestone, casing, Tura, Turah, white, shining, ancient, Egyptian, Egyptology, archaeology, history, telephoto, closeup