Whoever these people were, they built these monuments even before the Egyptians built the pyramids.
The fete overlooked the pyramids, which Mr. Rejwan arranged to stay lighted until 2 a.m.
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While the pharaohs were building pyramids, their courtiers were creating elaborate tombs for themselves.
Trucks carrying reserve reinforcements stand parked in the shade, beside the Pyramids, museums and temples.
Hopes for a picturesque descent near the Great Pyramids were dashed by high winds.
After 11:11, the director of the pyramids complex, Ali al-Asfar, said nothing unusual had happened.
Many of the bigger sizes pyramids, robustos and torpedos are hard to obtain, even in Havana.
When that slows, pyramids eventually collapse and leave all but the top dogs the poorer for it.
The famous pyramids in Giza have also been closed to tourists since the mass demonstrations began.
The Maya civilization collapsed in most of its southern lowlands, leaving only abandoned pyramids in silent cities.
Gone are the days when tourists might visit Egypt's museums and pyramids and ignore the country's political turmoil.
This impressive collection of pyramids, galleries, plazas and palaces flourished during the Late Classic Period of Mayan history (600 to 900AD).
These NASA achievements are our pyramids at Giza, and the knowledge they bring is our library at Alexandria.
The single show will mark Beyonce's first-ever concert in the land of pyramids.
In Cairo, the hotel faced the great pyramids, turning its back on the restless activities of the old city.
Piccard and Jones had hoped to touch down alongside the pyramids at Giza.
Calakmul's vast ruins, with Mayan monuments and pyramids, are ringed by rainforest.
The city walls and massive temple complexes with ziggurats or step-pyramids attest to the ingenuity of Uruk's architects and builders.
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You will need the relaxation to prepare for crowded Cairo, where a trip out to the pyramids is a requirement.
Stalls scattered throughout a warren of streets opposite the ferry dock display everything from glistening fresh fish to artfully constructed pyramids of spices.
"Now here's a site, the Sphinx and the Pyramids, probably the most famous ancient site in the worldno map, " Ludwig says.
Egypt has reopened one of its great pyramids as it attempts to revive a tourism industry hit by last year's uprising.
That was especially surprising in Sudan, the most foreign place of all, a land of vast deserts, untrammeled pyramids and vibrant mosques.
So Africa's pyramids, wide at childhood and adolescence, are more promising than, say, barren Italy's (see chart 2), but also more combustible.
The Incas and Mayans in the distant past created stone cultures with edifices, mammoth monuments, and pyramids, and they remain until now.
"Now here's a site, the sphinx and the pyramids, probably the most famous ancient site in the world no map, " Ludwig says.
Early on a clear morning, I look out and see three triangles on the horizon - the three main Pyramids of Giza.
The 36-ton blocks do not touch and were installed the way the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids, by tipping blocks into sand.
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Mr Tan has interests in airlines, banking, breweries, tobacco, property and much else, and holds these interests in several extremely complex pyramids.
At 5, 500 years old, the well preserved cow-hide shoe pre-dates Stonehenge by 400 years and the Pyramids of Giza by 1, 000 years.
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