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The Second Coming: Egypt, Israel and the Palestinian Territories
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Summer 2008The Great Pyramid of Cheops
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Cheops: The Great Pyramid

 
The Great Pyramid  
A camel and the Great Pyramid of Cheops  
Cheops' Solar Boat Cheops' Solar Boat
Cheops with one of its satellite pyramids Cheops has four smaller satellite pyramids to the east side.

This one is the Pyramid of Queen Meritetis, the wife of Cheops and daughter of Sneferu. It appears to have been a step Pyramid, like Djoser's Pyramid in Saqqarah.

Queen Henutsen Pyramid The other pyramids are the ones of Queen Hetepheres, Khufu's Mother, and the Pyramid of Ka. This one was only oncovered in 1994 and it's almost completely destroyed by erosion and time.

The one on this picture is Queen Henutsen Pyramid, daughter of Senefrou and Cheop's half sister.
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