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The rear view of the Pyramid of Khafre rises from a barren desert with the distant skyline of Cairo, Egypt, visible on the horizon.

Step Pyramid of Djoser

Blunted Pyramid

Pyramids of Giza

Mayan pyramid, Chichén Itzá, Mexico

Pyramid of the Sun

Great Sphinx and Pyramid of Khafre

The Blunted Pyramid of King Snefru at Dahshūr, Egypt.

Snefru's Pyramid

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Exterior image of the Great Pyramid of Khufu.

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Key People

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Snefru

king of Egypt

Richard Lepsius.

Richard Lepsius

German Egyptologist

Ṣaqqārah: pyramid of Userkaf

Userkaf

king of Egypt

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Neuserre

king of Egypt

Zahi Hawass and Barack Obama

Zahi Hawass

Egyptian archaeologist and official

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John Greaves

English mathematician, astronomer, and antiquary

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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