| Several pyramids and the Great Sphinx are located on the desert plateau marking the boundary of Giza, a suburb of Cairo. In Egyptian the site is known as "El-Ahram" (the pyramids). Numerous attempts have been made to give supernatural powers and meanings to these structures but they are beleived by scholars to be nothing more than tombs. Of course it is interesting to speculate as to other meanings to these structures. The specific purpose of these pyramids was to provide a place and means by which the dead Pharaoh would rise to the sky and join with the sun. The pyramid was also beleived to be the mineral concentration of the suns rays of light. Another Very Weak Hypothesis is that the Pyramids and the Nile represent Orion and the Milky Way; thus focusing the strength and power of heaven to Egypt. The best known pyramids are the tombs of the 3rd and 4th Dynasty Pharaohs: (the largest) Khufu, Cheops in Greek; Khafre, Chephren in Greek; and Menkaure, Mycerinus in Latin. Also, of course, there is the Great Sphinx. |
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| Plan Of Area | Khufu Or Cheops The Great Pyramid With Queens Pyramids Looks Smaller, But Actually Larger |
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| Khafre Or Chephren | Menkaure Or Mycerinus |
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| The Sphinx | The Sphinx & Khafre |
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| Giza From Cairo | Most People Don't Know The Pyrimids Are So Close To Cairo |
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| One Theory Is That The Shaft Of The Great Pyramid Points To Osiris Or (Orion's) Belt At The Star Zeta Orionis | Actual Astrophoto Of Orion's Belt, Note The Tank Track Nebula Near The Star, Zeta Orionis Alnitak (From Al Nitaf), You Be The Judge! |
