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Khafre's Pyramid Review
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Khafre's Pyramid
- Address: Giza
- Phone: no phone
- Category: Memorials/Monuments
- Location: Giza
Fodor's Review:
The pyramid of Khufu's son is the second-largest on the Giza site. It measures 702 ft square and stands 470 ft tall. It looks taller than Khufu's Pyramid because it stands on a slightly higher part of the plateau and because it still retains part of its fine limestone casing – brought from the quarries at Tura in the cliffs on the eastern bank of the Nile – at its summit. Like Khufu's complex, this one includes five boat pits (empty of boats), together with mortuary and valley temples and a connecting causeway some 430 yards long carved out of the living rock. The burial chamber, which is underground, contains a red granite sarcophagus with its lid. Next to this is a square cavity that presumably once held the canopic chest containing the pharaoh's viscera.
- Cost: £e20; additional £e10 to use your camera (no video recorders)
- Open: Daily 8–4
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