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Great Pyramid Pictures (part 1)
The Great Pyramid is the largest of all the Pyramids and is situated at Giza on the outskirts of Modern Cairo. The Pyramid was built for the Pharaoh Khufu.
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The Great Pyramid seen from the North East.
The North face of the Great Pyramid with the small entrance made by Caliph al-Mamum below the original entrance.
Original casimg stones at the base of the Northern face of the Pyramid.
Core blocks on the South face of the Great Pyramid.
Limestone gables over the original entrance to the Pyramid.
Just visible on one of the limestone gables over the entrance is a hieroglyphic inscription. It dates from the 19th century and is not ancient.
Now laying outside the original entrance to the Great Pyramid is a granite block that is probably the remains of one of the portcullis stones that once fitted in the grooves in the ante-chamber.
The tunnel cut by al-Mamum in the 9th century.
The point where the tunnel cut by al-Mamum turns towards the remaining plugs and the begining of the ascending corridor.
View down to the Descending Corridor just below the Granite Plugs.
The end of one of the granite plugs seen in the ceiling of the descending passage. A limestone plug originally hid the granite thus hiding the route into the upper parts of the Pyramid.
The passage to the lower subterranean chambers in the Great Pyramid is rarely opened now. Al-Mamun's tunnel can just be seen in this photograph opening to the right just before the grill sealing the descending passage.
A view looking back towards the original entrance taken from just below the point where the granite plug is visible in the passage ceiling.
Granite plugs in the Descending Corridor that were by-passed by al-Mamum's men.
A view past the granite plugs to the begining of the ascending corridor.
Looking back at the front of the third granite plug from the ascending corridor.
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