The Pyramid Complexes of the Giza Plateau

No one would ever accuse me of being an Egyptologist (unless you call having a crush on Flinders-Petrie counts), so when faithful reader G wrote to chide me that the picture I had attached to my definition of the Great Pyramid was in point of fact Khafre's Pyramid, I was shocked, but not entirely surprised. In gratitude for G's correction, and to make up for my foolish slip, I put together a little slide show of the four elements of the pyramid complexes in the Giza Plateau: Khufu's Pyramid, Khafre's Pyramid, Menkaure's Pyramid, and the Sphinx. There are several excellent sources of information about the Pyramids of Giza, so I didn't go into detail, and a good thing too!

• The Pyramid Complexes of the Giza Plateau, a slide show
• The Pyramids at Giza, from Guardian's Egypt
• The Pyramids, American Public Broadcasting's NOVA
• The Pyramids of Egypt, from TourEgypt.
• The Pyramids at Gizeh, from Flinders-Petrie himself, dated 1883 and now online thanks to Ronald Birdsall
• Ancient Dynastic Egypt, some more archaeological resources
• Ancient Egypt, the literature and history, from N.S. Gill, About's guide to Ancient History

The photo on this blog entry is of Khafre's Pyramid, and it was taken by Andrea De Stefani