@artillles: The Great Pyramid of Giza is the largest of the Egyptian pyramids, a monument to the architectural art of Ancient Egypt; the only one of the "Seven Wonders of the World" to survive to this day, and the oldest of them, estimated to be approximately 4,500 years old. Located on the Giza Plateau near the Egyptian capital and the Nile Delta, on its left bank, it is the northernmost of the plateau's three great pyramids, named after three pharaohs of the Old Kingdom from the Fourth Dynasty, who are believed to have commissioned their construction: Cheops (Khufu), Khafre (Khafra), and Menkaure (Menkaure). The three pyramids, with their sides precisely oriented to the four cardinal directions[1], were built near the cities of Memphis (the capital of the Old Kingdom) and Heliopolis, millennia before the founding of Cairo. It is a single-tiered pyramid with smooth sides and a square base, the cladding of which was removed under Sultan Barquq in 1395, and the apex represents a platform 10 meters long and wide.[3] With an original height of almost 147 meters, for more than three millennia (until the construction of Lincoln Cathedral, England, around 1300; the estimated height of the lost spire is 160 meters), the pyramid was the tallest structure on Earth. Since 1979, like many other pyramids of the complex "Memphis and its Necropolises - the Pyramid Area from Giza to Dahshur", it has been part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. #pyramids #History #egypt #sphinx #pharaoh

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