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| The Giza Pyramids are located just outside modern Cairo. These towering structures are probably the best known archaeological monuments in the world. They form one part of a vast necropolis, or city of the dead, that housed hundreds of individual tombs of Egypt's administrative and governing classes. In 1901 the Egyptian Antiquities Service granted permits for scientific excavations at Giza. They asked American, Italian and German expeditions to dig at the site. The American team eventually ended up with the largest area, which included the pyramid complex of King Menkaure (or Mycerinus, the third and smallest Giza pyramid), the entire cemetery east of the Great Pyramid, and two-thirds of the cemetery west of the Great Pyramid. | |
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This view down "Street 2100" looking south, taken on January 9, 1938, shows the massive walls of mastaba tombs from Dynasty 4, with the second pyramid of Khafre (Chephren) in the background. |
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The same
view, taken on April 25, 1999, shows the many burial shafts in the street
filled in and much less clearly defined. |
