Ghizeh

This curious object, now in the National Egyptian Museum at Ghizeh, is one of several similar wigs buried with the mummy of Princess Nesikhonsu, a royal lady of the Twenty-first Dynasty, whose mortal remains and personal adornments were discovered in 1881, in the famous vault of the Priest Kings at Dayr-el-Bahari.

Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

From the sphinx at Ghizeh, which is so ancient that no one knows its origin, to the great dam at Assuan, monument of its present day, each period of its history has left _some_ record, some tomb or temple, which we may study, and it is this more than anything else which makes Egypt so attractive to thoughtful people.

Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt R. Talbot Kelly 1897

The first time that I went to the Pyramids of Ghizeh there were a number of Arabs hanging about in its neighbourhood, and wanting to receive presents on various pretences; their Sheik was with them.

Eothen 2003

The fanciful and elaborate gilt-work of the many minarets gives a light and florid grace to the city as seen from this height, but before you can look for many seconds at such things your eyes are drawn westward — drawn westward and over the Nile, till they rest upon the massive enormities of the Ghizeh

Eothen 2003

One of the Pyramids at Sakkara is almost a rival for the full-grown monster at Ghizeh; others are scarcely more than vast heaps of brick and stone: these last suggested to me the idea that after all the Pyramid is nothing more nor less than a variety of the sepulchral mound so common in most countries (including, I believe, Hindustan, from whence the Egyptians are supposed to have come).

Eothen 2003

To get the stones he tore down two of the pyramids at Ghizeh.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

To get the stones he tore down two of the pyramids at Ghizeh.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

To get the stones he tore down two of the pyramids at Ghizeh.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

The Great Pyramid at Ghizeh was built some 2,000 years before a stone was laid of the masonry of Mycenae.

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

By comparing them with the pyramids of Ghizeh, it will be seen that they are also taller in proportion to their base.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 Various