Eights Facts About The Great Ghiza Pyramid

• Great pyramid of Giza is the oldest pyramid in the world, approximately last around 2560 BC and was built in between more than 20 years long, located in Necropolis of Ancient Memphis, and now as a part of Greater Cairo, Egypt.

• Giza pyramid is said to be made as Firaun/ pharaoh’s cemetery, the forth Dynasty of Egypt named Khufu. While the Greek called the term ‘ Khufu’ with ‘Cheops’.

• The Great pyramid of Giza is titled  ‘Khufu belongs to the Horizon’. This pyramid is also called Khufu Pyramid.

• Great Pyramid of Giza shaped in 230 meters square, and estimated as built wih 2,3 million blocks of stone, with approximately 4 thousands skilled stone masons involved. It is made of limestone which were ferried across the Nile from East Bank, the burial chamber and inner passages inside the pyramid is made granite.

 
• In addition to Cheops (Khufu) as the main pyramids, there are also some other pyramids surround Cheops. One among the small pyramids around Great pyramid of Cheops , was used as Queen Hetepheres funeral ( found in 1925), sisters, and Sneferu ( Khufu’s wife) and mother of Khufu.

• A ‘satellite’ pyramids – which are smaller than the three pyramids for Khufu’s wife – is more like a heighten path. This is the graves of the aristocratic.

• A few meters in south-west of Great Pyramid of Giza, there’s a smaller pyramid called Khafre Pyramid. Khafre was Khufu’s generation, and considered as one of the Great Sphinx founder.

• A research toward this Great Pyramid was conducted by Sir William Mathew Flider Petrie in 1881. During the Giza mapping projects, more things have been discovered. Not only a funeral, but a city can be found too. Bread stores, beer manufactures, and a central of copper mining.

• A few meters in south-west of Great Pyramid of Giza, there’s a smaller pyramid called Khafre Pyramid. Khafre was Khufu’s generation, and considered as one of the Great Sphinx founder.

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