You are welcome to explore the pyramids and the adjacent Great Sphinx after purchasing a Giza ... the winter or want to beat Cairo's notorious heat, consider arriving early in the morning when ...

One of Cairo's must-see attractions is the Great Sphinx, the world's oldest monumental sculpture. Situated by the Pyramids of Giza, the Great Sphinx impresses with its size – it measures 66 feet ...

Along with the enigmatic Sphinx and other smaller tombs and monuments, Giza has three principal pyramids: Khufu (originally 481 feet high, and sometimes called Cheops, or the Great Pyramid ...

It’s known from hieroglyphic texts that Khafre’s father, Khufu, built the 481-foot-tall Great Pyramid, a quarter mile from where the Sphinx would later be built. Khafre, following a tough ...

But no one dreamed before now that the same might be true of Egypt’s Great Pyramids at Giza ... t the only significant constellation. The Sphinx faces due east, and on the vernal equinox ...

Like the pyramids ... Pharaoh Khufu’s Great Pyramid of Giza. It is the tallest pyramid that you can see in this picture. It is made from over two million stone blocks. A sphinx is a mythical ...

The most enigmatic of sculptures, the Sphinx was carved from a single block of limestone left over in the quarry used to build the Pyramids. Scholars believe it was sculpted about 4,600 years ago ...