← 4.4 Historical Sites and Monuments in Africa
The Giza pyramids
Social Studies · Grade 8 · about 40 minutes
Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure on the Giza plateau near Cairo: Old Kingdom tombs of the 4th Dynasty, about 2600-2500 BCE, with the Great Sphinx. UNESCO 1979 as part of Memphis and its Necropolis.
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