Giza Necropolis
Ancient stone pyramid complex and tomb of a pharaoh, built with over two million quarried blocks.
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This guide to the Giza Necropolis in Cairo turns on a 1990 accident: an American tourist's horse stumbling over a hidden wall in the sand, uncovering a cemetery archaeologists never expected. For centuries the story of who built these pyramids came from Herodotus, the Greek writer who described gangs forced to labor under the whip for the pharaoh Khufu. The guide follows what the newly opened tombs, with their named occupants and daily rations from Nile farms, had to say about that story.
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