The Great Pyramid of Giza

The Great Pyramid is the only surviving wonder of the seven ancient wonders. You don’t need to rely on document or remaining sculpture to imagine how great the structure is. You can physically see it up close and personal.

The great pyramid was built by the Egyptian pharaoh Khufu of the Fourth Dynasty around the year 2560 BC (Imaging this, 2560 years before Christ was born...) to serve as a tomb when he dies. When it was built, the Great pyramid was 145.75m high. Over the years, it lost approximate 10m off its top. It ranked as the tallest structure on Earth for more than 43 centuries, only to be surpassed in height in the nineteenth century AD by Eiffel Tower in Paris. The structure consists of approximately 2 million blocks of stone, each weighing more than two tons.

Natasha and I visited this gorgeous pyramid in Giza Plateau in October 2006. These 2 photos show the size of each block of stone that constructed the Great Pyramid. A block of stone can be easily reached the height of an adult.

The Great Pyramid is very impressive not just because of the structure. The Great Pyramid left a number of mysteries and unanswered questions to the world. Until today, nobody can actually explain how the Great Pyramid was built? What is the actual purpose of the Pyramid?

Amongst mysteries related to the Great Pyramid that we gather from some books or websites, we have listed some that we think interesting as below:

• The Great Pyramid as built by species from outer space.
• The Great Pyramid is that it has the power to stop the rotting of flesh.
• The alignment of the three pyramids to Orion’s belt.