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View from the top of the Great Pyramid
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Environs of Cairo.
Published as halftone in Harper's Weekly, 1895, p. 304.
Similar to lantern slide W7-112.
Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative.
Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949.
Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1943. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).
Egypt pyramids complex consists of Great Pyramid of Giza (also known as the Pyramid of Cheops or Khufu and constructed c. 2560–2540 BC), the smaller Pyramid of Khafre (or Chephren) a few hundred meters to the south-west, and the relatively modest-sized Pyramid of Menkaure (or Mykerinos) a few hundred meters farther south-west, and the Great Sphinx that lies on the east side of the complex..
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