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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.
Giza Tombs EG024122jhp Gizah Chephren Pyramid Central Field ancient Egypt tombs rock-cut desert sand, an area that lies roughly between the causeway of Menkaure and that of Khafre in which there are many old mastabas and rock cut tombs, some open to the public such as Debhen or Iwn-min and the most prominent of which is the Mastaba of Queen Khentkawes the last major Royal construction in the Giza complex. It is an area left to the individual to explore and has an eerie feel wandering amongst some grotesque eroded faces of limestone showing the natural damage that centuries of wind and blown sand can do to unprotected soft limestone. To the western boundary of this area is a large bluff with the modern Muslim cemetery beneath it Keywords: Egypt, Cairo, Giza, Gizah, landscape, Khafre, Chephren, Pyramid, royalty, burial, necropolis, Menkaure, Mycerinus, causeway, causeways, Central, Field, tombs, mastabas, rock-cut, tomb, eroded, entrance, Queen, pyramids, Khentkawes, Debhen, Iwn-min, Yun-min, Lunmin, Qar, Idu, Meres-ankh, Senezemib, Seshemnufer, limestone, erosion, shapes, weird, grotesque, ancient, Egyptian, Egyptology, archaeology, history, desert, sand
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Giza Pyramids & Sphinx
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Giza Tombs EG024122jhp
Upload Date: 2002-10-20 12:50:55
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Gizah Chephren Pyramid Central Field ancient Egypt tombs rock-cut desert

sand, an area that lies roughly between the causeway of Menkaure and that of Khafre in which there are many old mastabas and rock cut tombs, some open to the public such as Debhen or Iwn-min and the most prominent of which is the Mastaba of Queen Khentkawes the last major Royal construction in the Giza complex. It is an area left to the individual to explore and has an eerie feel wandering amongst some grotesque eroded faces of limestone showing the natural damage that centuries of wind and blown sand can do to unprotected soft limestone. To the western boundary of this area is a large bluff with the modern Muslim cemetery beneath it
Keywords: Egypt, Cairo, Giza, Gizah, landscape, Khafre, Chephren, Pyramid, royalty, burial, necropolis, Menkaure, Mycerinus, causeway, causeways, Central, Field, tombs, mastabas, rock-cut, tomb, eroded, entrance, Queen, pyramids, Khentkawes, Debhen, Iwn-min, Yun-min, Lunmin, Qar, Idu, Meres-ankh, Senezemib, Seshemnufer, limestone, erosion, shapes, weird, grotesque, ancient, Egyptian, Egyptology, archaeology, history, desert, sand