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The Great Pyramid
Title: The Great Pyramid
Category: History
Details: Words: 576 | Pages: 2.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Great Pyramid
The Great Pyramid
The great pyramid was built during the reign of Khufu, 2nd king
of the fourth dynasty (2,720-2,560 BC). It stands on the Giza
plateau nearby Cairo and is the biggest pyramid in the world. It
measures 230 m (756 ft) on each side of its base and originally
measured 147 m (482 ft) high. Beginning in the 10th century AD
the entire Giza complex served as a source of building materials
for the construction of Cairo; as …showed first 75 words of 576 total…
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meter.
On the Khufu pyramid, all the casing elements were removed in
the 14th century. The few casing stones which do remain in the
Great Pyramid all lie in the 1.5 meter thick bottom course and
cannot be representative of the stones which would have been used
in the higher parts of the construction. The only examples of
face work such as this which remain are those on the pyramids at
Meidum, Dashur andGiza.
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