Giza Pyramids - scenic relaxation film with calming music

Giza Pyramids - scenic relaxation film with calming music

The Giza Pyramid Complex (also called the Giza Necropolis) is an archaeological site on the Giza plateau in Greater Cairo, Egypt. The complex includes the Great Pyramid, the Pyramid of Khafre and the Pyramid of Menkaure, along with their associated pyramid complexes and the Great Sphinx. These pyramids were all built during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt between 2600 and 2500 BC. The site also includes several tombs and the remains of a workers' village.

The complex is located on the fringes of the Western Desert about 9 kilometers (5.6 mi) west of the Nile in the city of Giza, and about 13 kilometers (8 mi) southwest of downtown Cairo. The site (along with the neighboring city of Memphis) was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979.

The Great Pyramid and the Pyramid of Khafre are two of the largest pyramids built in ancient Egypt, and they were historically popular as symbols of ancient Egypt in the Western imagination. They became famous in Hellenistic times, when the Great Pyramid was listed by the Greek poet Antipater as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. They are by far the oldest and only ancient wonders of the world still surviving.

The pyramids, according to one of the hypotheses, are royal tombs, each bearing the name of the king who built it and was buried in it. The pyramidal building is a stage in the development of tomb architecture in ancient Egypt. It started with a small pit that turned into an underground room and then into several rooms topped by a terrace. Then it evolved to take the form of a stepped pyramid by the engineer Imhotep, the minister of the pharaoh and King Djoser in the Third Dynasty. This was followed by two attempts by King Sneferu, founder of the Fourth Dynasty, to build a complete hierarchical form. But the backs of the two pyramids are improperly shaped, and they are located in Dahshur, one of them has a flat base and the other has a smaller shape that is about half the size of the first. The engineer Hamiono, the engineer of King Khufu, was able to achieve the ideal pyramidal shape and built the pyramid of Khufu in Giza on an area of ​​13 acres, followed by the pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure.
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