الجيزه اعظم ملوك مصر, Giza Plateau and the great Egyptian pyramids and magnificent area
The Pyramids Of Giza,
it’s already comes the first of any list - the Pyramids of Giza. It’s means Egypt's three pyramids, at Giza Plateau ,it’s built in the 4th Dynasty
The pyramids was built in Ancient Egypt for kings (and queens) tomps ,
Today there are more than 114 pyramid in Egypt.
the Giza Pyramids one of the famous them and more magnificence of this area:
Now we will get more knowledge and trip with our mind at this area and an incredible those pyramids
I will tell you too
it became one of the “Seven Wonders of the Ancient World”, and in our world
and today, it is the only one of them remaining. For a period of 4300 years, the pyramid was also the tallest building on earth, until the French built the Eiffel Tower in 1889.
At first we will start talking about the first one which already built at this area
It’s name is
The Great Pyramid of “Khufu”
It’s the biggest one ,tallest ,and most still until now intact pyramids in Egypt
- The Great Pyramid of Khufu
- or Cheops
Khufu’s Pyramid was built from limestone and considered an architectural masterpiece.
It consists of about 2,300,000 blocks every blocks from this pyramid it’s in weight from 2.5 tons to 15 tons.
The original height of the pyramid was 146.5m , but today it is only 137m
The 9m that is missing is due to the theft of the fine quality limestone covering, or casing stones, by the Ottoman Turks in the 15th century A.D, to build them houses and mosques
The pyramid's entrance, it’s always known it’s set at one direction in every one at any pyramid in Egypt is located at the northern side.
At the Khufu pyramid there are actually 2 entrances , one is the original, and is 17m over ground level, and the other one is a man-made forced entrance located at down the first one it’s Created in the 9th century A.D by Khalif El-Mamoun, who was looking and searching for the treasures that he thought might have been kept inside. He sent out stonemasons to open up an entrance, and they cut it midway across the center of the northern side. it connects with the original inner corridors of the pyramid. And no one can find any things , as it was plundered in antiquity. Nowadays visitors, to the site, use Mamoun’s entrance to gain access to the pyramid, as it is actually considered to be a shortcut.
- The second one at this area magnificence
The Pyramid of Khafre
Or chephren
Khafre's Pyramid, it’s already named the 2nd Pyramid, is easily we can know it because that’s a big defrant between this one and his father’s pyramid because his top still until this day with his casing with limestone
along with the fact that it actually stands on a higher part of the plateau, give us the impression that it is taller than the Great Pyramid of Khufu . An optical illusion, as it is only 136m tall, with sides of 214.5m a surface area of 11 acres, and an angle of 53 degrees. It also has lost some of its original height through the years, once being 143.5m tall.
The entrance of this pyramid it’s also located at north-facing side. As well as the same direction in the first one
There are no corridors leading is inside of this Pyramid, the burial chamber started underground, and a long descending passageway has to be negotiated to reach it. This entrance (15m) over ground level, leading to the narrow passage, which descends at a 25-degree angle into the large burial chamber
- And the third one and smaller one
Which we called it
The Pyramid of Menkaure
Menkaure is the Khafre's son, built the smallest of the 3 main pyramids on this cemetery Giza Plateau. This one it’s about 65.5mtall, now it’s about 62m ,with sides of 105m and an angle of 51.3 degrees.
The entrance located as well as the North side same direction at the first and the second
Apart from the size, Menkaure's Pyramid differed from the other 2 in the choice of casing stones.
There is a big difference in this pyramid because at his grand father the great Khufu and his father’s Khafre it’s casing from white limestone which already comes Turah limestone but at this one it’s casing from cased with pink granite stone , which had comes from Aswan, the last of which was taken by Muhammad Ali Pasha (1805-1848) who used them to built his arsenal in Alexandria
Some research tell us about this pyramid was altered during its construction, and made a lot bigger than originally planned. The original, smaller pyramid had a small descending tunal and burial chamber, but when it was enlarged, a new tunal was built with 3 entrance and a small paneled chamber. Later still, another burial chamber, along with a small room were added at a lower level at this pyramid
- And we had more important information about other building at this plateau
- The Great Sphinx: Or sheep ankh
It’s represent an amazing huge bode lion with human head
The body is 60m long and 20m tall. Its face is 4m
wide with eyes measuring 2m high. It faces the rising sun and was revered so much by the ancients, and also that they built a temple in front of it.
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