The great pyramids of Giza

Unlike the pyramids that stand alone in the desert, the pharaohs of the Ancient Kingdom built three tombs on the Giza plateau and created a real cemetery city with tombs, temples, roads and sidewalks. They buried here not only pharaohs, their wives and servants, but also their closest relatives, as well as courtiers – in short, everyone who wanted to go after their master to the other world in the hope that he would give them life after death (all these people, except the servants, were of noble origin – the road to eternity was closed to the common people forever).What the great pyramids of Giza look like It is not without reason that the Egyptian pyramids in Giza are a real cemetery for aristocrats, where a considerable number of people were buried at one time. And the complex of pyramids in Giza includes: the pyramids of Cheops Khefren and Mikerin; temples leading to them, located at the beginning of the memorial road and in one of which Egyptologists discovered a triad-a unique ancient statue of the Pharaoh Mikerin Continue reading →