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Relief carving on a column at the Great Temple of Amon in Karnak, Thebes, Egypt, depicting the Egyptian god Min with tall plumed headdress and hieroglyphics above.

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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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Relief carving on a column at the Great Temple of Amon in Karnak, Thebes, Egypt, depicting the Egyptian god Min with tall plumed headdress and hieroglyphics above.

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Min, relief on a column of the Great Temple of Amon at Karnak in Thebes, Egypt.

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