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Travel down the Nile to discover important ancient Egyptian cultural sites such as the Pyramids of Giza
Blunted Pyramid Snefru's Pyramid The Blunted Pyramid of King Snefru at Dahshūr, Egypt. blunted pyramid
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Al-Jizah. Giza Necropolis, Giza Plateau, Cairo, Egypt. Side view of Sphinx with the Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) rising in the background. The sides of all three of the Giza pyramids are astronomically oriented to be north-south, east-west (see notes)
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Temple ruins of columns and statures at Karnak, Egypt (Egyptian architecture; Egyptian archaelogy; Egyptian history)
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Great Pyramid of Cheops (Great Pyramid of Khufu) at Giza, Egypt. (Gizah)
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Travel down the Nile to discover important ancient Egyptian cultural sites such as the Pyramids of Giza
A discussion of some of the most important sites associated with ancient Egypt.
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blunted pyramid
The Blunted, Bent, False, or Rhomboidal Pyramid, Dahshūr, Egypt.
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Blunted Pyramid
The Blunted, Bent, False, or Rhomboidal Pyramid, so named because of its peculiar...
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Snefru's Pyramid
The Blunted, Bent, False, or Rhomboidal Pyramid, so named because of its peculiar...
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The Blunted Pyramid of King Snefru at Dahshūr, Egypt.
H. Roger-Viollet
blunted pyramid
The Blunted, Bent, False, or Rhomboidal Pyramid, so named because of its peculiar...
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