Giza Gallery

Mena House Hotel, Cairo, Egypt - View of Cheops Pyramid

Mena House Hotel, Cairo, Egypt - View of Cheops Pyramid. The hotel was a former Royal hunting lodge, which opened as a Hotel in 1869. Date: circa 1920s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Egypt. The Great Pyramid of Giza, called the Pyramid of Khuf

Egypt. The Great Pyramid of Giza, called the Pyramid of Khufu and the Pyramid of Cheops. Is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis. Tomb of the fourth-dynasty pharaoh Khufu. Is believed it was constructed by the architect Hemiunu (fl. 2570 BC). 26th century B.C. Old Kingdom

© Thaliastock / Bubblepunk

EGYPT: PYRAMIDS, 1670. Fanciful view of the Pyramids and Nile River in Egypt. Line engraving, 19th century, after an illustration from a Dutch book on Africa by Olfert Dappers, 1670

EGYPT: PYRAMIDS, 1670.
Fanciful view of the Pyramids and Nile River in Egypt. Line engraving, 19th century, after an illustration from a Dutch book on Africa by Olfert Dappers, 1670

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