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Great Pyramid of Giza Side view of the Sphinx with the Great Pyramid of Khufu rising behind it on the Giza Plateau near Cairo, Egypt. Ivory statue of Egyptian King Khufu on a pedestal. Diagram of a cross section of the Great Pyramid of Khufu near Giza, Egypt, showing labeled internal features such as the King's Chamber, Queen's Chamber, Grand Gallery, passageways, air shafts, and subterranean chamber.
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Al-Jizah. Giza Necropolis, Giza Plateau, Cairo, Egypt. Side view of Sphinx with the Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) rising in the background. The sides of all three of the Giza pyramids are astronomically oriented to be north-south, east-west (see notes)
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Great Pyramid of Giza
Great Pyramid of Giza, built to honor Khufu, near Giza, Egypt.
© Ron Gatepain (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Khufu
Side view of the Sphinx with the Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) rising in the background,...
© Maksym Gorpenyuk/Shutterstock.com
King Khufu
The ivory statue of Khufu, displayed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, is the only...
© Sayed Hassan/Getty Images
Great Pyramid of Giza: cross section of interior
Cross section of the interior of the Great Pyramid of Giza, facing west, near Giza,...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Patrick O'Neill Riley
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