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Giza: Giza Pyramids
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The Giza Plateau is an ongoing excavation site. There are new tombs and structures being discovered with amazing regularity and yet there must be so much still to uncover. Today the whole plateau is a vast tourist complex which could take the visitor weeks to see properly. The area is currently being re-developed to provide even more facilities, with many plans afoot to make the area more 'tourist friendly'. The new Grand Egyptian Museum will ... be built close to the pyramids. There is a Sound and Light Show each evening, presented in Arabic, English, French, Japanese and German, which uses the three pyramids as an impressive backdrop.
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Giza, the site of the Great Sphinx and the three pyramids of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure, may be the most famous archaeological site in the world. Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, sponsored George Reisner, who excavated the pyramids, tombs, and temples of Giza from 1903 to 1942, when he died at Harvard Camp on the summit of the Giza Plateau. Reisner was ahead of his time in the development of systematic digging and careful recording by notes, maps, and photographs. He found fabulous pieces of ancient art as he excavated the temples of the Pyramids and hundreds of tombs of the most powerful Egyptians of the Pyramid Age. Modern archaeologists are able to use his records as a basis for their own work at Giza.
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West of Cairo, Giza (... Jiza) has an area of 32,878 square miles (85,153 sq km) and a 1986 population estimated at 3.7 million. Famous for its three large pyramids and Sphinx, Giza lagged behind other parts of Egypt in converting to Christianity and then in embracing Islam. Its capital and main city, also called Giza, had some 1.9 million inhabitants, according to the 1986 census estimate. Several of the other towns and villages of Giza province - Duqqi and Imbaba - are suburbs of Cairo, and it has grown rapidly since World War II.
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The main road to Giza Pyramids ends just in front of the Great Pyramid. Alternately there is another entrance to the plateau near the Sphinx Temple. Entrance to the newly restored Great Pyramid is now restricted to 300 visitors each day. The Giza Plateau can be reached easily from Cairo by a bus which goes from the Midan Tahrir (near the Nile Hilton) and takes around 20 minutes. If you prefer to take a taxi, this may be hired either for a single journey or for the day.
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The history of Giza goes back to over 5,000 years ago. During the time in which the pharaohs lived, they built a fascinating funerary="0" included various temples and the three great pyramids. For many centuries, it was not known that the pyramids were the tombs of early Egyptian pharaohs. An example of one of the many theories were that the pyramids were storage places for grain during droughts and famine! Little did they know that these great pyramids were tombs built for three rulers: Menkaure, Khafre, and Khufu. These three rulers were of the 4th dynasty, (approximately 2601-2515 BCE.)
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Giza is most well known for its famous pyramids. Giza's apogee coincided with the reign of Salah al-Din when its Sunday market attracted vast crowds. But the area's vulnerability to floods caused problems and it wasn't until Ismail laid the Pyramids Road, drained swamps and built a palace in the 1860s that Giza became fashionable again. As Giza's population topped a million, a wave of development devoured the crumbling villas.
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