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the only statue for king Khufu about 7.5cm
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The Great Pyramid of Giza was built by King Khufu (Cheops in
Greek) the second pharaoh of the 4th dynasty, who ruled in the first half of
the old kingdom period For nearly 23 years.
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the pyramid complex
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the pyramid complex of king Khufu was built on Giza
Plateau, the complex is Consisting of a valley temple, a causeway, a mortuary
temple, satellite pyramid, three queens pyramids and the king’s pyramid .
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the location of Nazlat Samman
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the valley temple had not discovered yet because it is difficult
to do excavation work on the site that the archaeologists are Semi-sure In a
large percent that the valley temple exist is under Populated Village
called Nazlat Samman .
the causeway, It was exist when the German archaeologist
Lipsius visited Egypt over 100 years ago but now it is disappeared but
the archaeologists found only few of stone pieces covered with relief carving,
it length 40 m Up between the valley temple and the mortuary temple .
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the mortuary temple
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the mortuary temple, located on the eastern side of the
pyramid , the valley temple is destroyed now but its foundation tells us how it
was in the old days .
the satellite pyramid , it was discovered by the great Egyptian archaeologist
Dr.Zahi Hawass . it about 20 m and has a passage takes the T shape .
the three pyramids of the queens, for his mother and his
wives .
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the planing of the pyramid
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the pyramid, it was called in the days of Khufu (in
hieroglyphs) Akhet Khufu which is mean "the horizon of Khufu" it
contains about 2,300,00 blocks of limestone, the original entrance 7m above
ground in the eastern side, it leads to passage descending through the pyramid,
ends in small chamber which is below ground level but is wasn't
completed!!! is this chamber the king's burial chamber ??? the certain answer
for this question is no it may used for other purpose, but where is the
burial chamber???
from the descending passage there is a cramped tall
ascending passage about 1 m wide and a horizon tall passage leads to
chamber lies exactly to the centre axis of the pyramid, this chamber is the
real burial chamber which was misnamed by explorers Whose called it
"queen's chamber".
above the burial chamber are five stress relieving chamber
and at the very top of those the chambers the roof is a pent roof to distribute
the Pressure .
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