Giza Plateau, Egypt

Located only few kilometers south of Cairo, Giza Plateau lies on the west bank of River Nile. Known by the name of "The West" or kher neter, "the necropolis", in ancient Egypt, Giza Plateau is popular throughout the world because of the Pyramids.

Giza Plateau can be divided into two groups on the basis of the monuments. The larger and the most important group consists of the Three Great Pyramids related to Khufu, Khephren (Khafre) and Menkaure, the Sphinx. Located on the ridge directing towards southeast, the second group include number of private tombs of citizens of different classes.

It is the three Great Pyramids that make this site of Egypt noticeable but Giza Plateau has actually been a Necropolis site since the time of Pharaonic Egypt. Monuments of the larger group are made of limestone and were transported to the present site while the tombs of smaller group are simply carved out on the native living rocks.

The oldest known tomb of Giza Plateau is a mastaba that dated back to early 1st Dynasty but the main attractions of Giza are that three pyramids that stimulate tourists to visit this sacred place of Egypt every year.

Beside of the pyramids Giza also houses a Solar Boat Museum that was constructed over the site of finding of solar boats in 1954. Most of the structural monuments at Giza plundered during the political unrest. That is why the exact vastness of Giza can never be known.