EditorialBas-relief depicting Princess Meritites. Old Kingdom. 4th Dynasty, ca. 2500 BC. Polychrome limestone. It shows two female figures, the two daughters of Meritites and Akhtihetep, flanking a cartouche composed of two cords and bearing the name of the Pha...
EditorialThe three most famous pyramids on the plateau of Gizeh: from l. to r. Cheops, Chefren and Mykerinos. These three pyramids were all built between 2.589 and 2.350 BCE. Cheops is 137 m high, Chefren 136 m, and Mykerinos 66.5 m.
EditorialThree pyramids on the limestone plateau of Gizeh. There are some thirty pyramids in the desert south of the famous pyramids of Cheops, Chefren and Mycerinus (26th BCE), 4th Dynasty, Old Kingdom.
EditorialConstantine Zangaki, George Zangaki, Pyramid de Cheops, le Sphinx et le temple de saffra, albumin paper, black and white positive process, image size: height: 21.10 cm; width: 27.50 cm, recto: copied in left lower margin: Zangaki; right lower margin co...
EditorialThe sun-boat or funeral-boat of Pharaoh Cheops. The 1224 individual parts of the boat were discovered in 1954 in a deep ditch next to the Cheops pyramid. Such boats were used in the ritual voyage of the dead Pharaoh along the Nile. Cedar wood, L: 46 m.
EditorialEgypt. The Pyramids of Giza. Great Pyramid of Giza (known as the Great Pyramid and the Pyramid of Cheops or Khufu), the Pyramid of Khafre (or Chephren) and the Pyramid of Menkaure (or Mykerinos). 26th century B.C. 4th Dynasty. Old Kingdom.
EditorialKhufu (Cheops) ship. Intact full-size vessel. Type known as a "solar barge", a ritual vessel to carry the resurrected king with the sun god Ra across the heavens. 4th Dynasty. Old Kingdom. Giza pyramid complex. c. 2500 BC. Giza Solar boat Museum. Egypt.
EditorialKhufu (Cheops) ship. Intact full-size vessel. Type known as a "solar barge", a ritual vessel to carry the resurrected king with the sun god Ra across the heavens. 4th Dynasty. Old Kingdom. Giza pyramid complex. c. 2500 BC. Giza Solar boat Museum. Egypt.
EditorialEgypt. The Great Pyramid of Giza, called the Pyramid of Khufu and the Pyramid of Cheops. Is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis. Tomb of the fourth-dynasty pharaoh Khufu. Is believed it was constructed by the architect H...
EditorialEgypt. Great Pyramid of Giza, known as the Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops). Is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis. Tomb of the Fourth Dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu. Is believed it was constructed by the architect Hemiunu (f...
EditorialThe sun-boat or funeral-boat of Pharaoh Cheops. The 1224 individual parts of the boat were discovered in 1954 in a deep ditch next to the Cheops pyramid. Such boats were used in the ritual voyage of the dead Pharaoh along the Nile. Cedar wood, L: 46 m.
EditorialEgypt. The Great Pyramid of Giza, called the Pyramid of Khufu and the Pyramid of Cheops. Is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis. Tomb of the fourth-dynasty pharaoh Khufu. Is believed it was constructed by the architect H...
EditorialEgypt. Great Pyramid of Giza, known as the Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops). Is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis. Tomb of the Fourth Dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu. Is believed it was constructed by the architect Hemiunu (f...
EditorialInterior of the Great Pyramid of Cheops (Khufu), Giza, Egypt. Arab men with torches climbing walls and staircases in a narrow room. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrrario's Costumes Antique and Modern of All Peoples...
EditorialEgypt. The Great Pyramid of Giza, called the Pyramid of Khufu and the Pyramid of Cheops. Is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis. Tomb of the fourth-dynasty pharaoh Khufu. Is believed it was constructed by the architect H...
EditorialEgypt. Great Pyramid of Giza, known as the Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops). Is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis. Tomb of the Fourth Dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu. Is believed it was constructed by the architect Hemiunu (f...
EditorialThe three most famous pyramids on the plateau of Gizeh: from l. to r. Cheops, Chefren and Mykerinos. These three pyramids were all built between 2.589 and 2.350 BCE. Cheops is 137 m high, Chefren 136 m, and Mykerinos 66.5 m.
EditorialThree pyramids on the limestone plateau of Gizeh. There are some thirty pyramids in the desert south of the famous pyramids of Cheops, Chefren and Mycerinus (26th BCE), 4th Dynasty, Old Kingdom.
EditorialRed granite block of Khufu (Cheops), Egyptian, 4th Dynasty, c2500 BC. Block bearing the so-called 'Horus name' of Khufu, builder of the Great Pyramids at Gizeh. Kings conventionally bore five different names, each of which defines a different part of t...
EditorialStele of Nefertiabet, daughter or sister of the Pharaoh Cheops, dressed in a leopard's skin. 4th dynasty, around 2620-2500 BCE. From Gizeh. Painted plaster,52,5 x 37,7 cm E 15591.