{"id":12507,"date":"2024-05-15T07:12:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T01:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12507"},"modified":"2025-04-01T19:39:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T14:09:59","slug":"great-pyramid-of-giza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/great-pyramid-of-giza\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Pyramid of Giza"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Great Pyramid of Giza:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Great Pyramid of Giza, also called <strong>Great Pyramid<\/strong> and <strong>Great Pyramid of Khufu<\/strong>, is an <strong>ancient Egyptian pyramid<\/strong> that is the <strong>largest of the three Pyramids of Giza<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: It is located on the <strong>Giza plateau,<\/strong> five miles to the <strong>west of<\/strong> the <strong>Nile River ,near<\/strong> the city of <strong>Cairo, Egypt.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>built by Khufu<\/strong> (Cheops), the <strong>second king of Egypt\u2019s 4th dynasty<\/strong> (c. 2575\u2013c. 2465 BCE).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Its construction<\/strong> began around 2580 BC, shortly after Khufu became pharaoh, and was <strong>completed around 2560 BC.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Until the Eiffel Tower<\/strong> was <strong>completed in Paris<\/strong>, France, in 1889, the <strong>Great Pyramid was the tallest structure made by human<\/strong> hands in the world; a record it held for over 3,000 years.<\/li>\n<li>The pyramid was <strong>first excavated<\/strong> using modern techniques and scientific analysis <strong>in 1880 by Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie<\/strong> (l.1853-1942), the British archaeologist.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>When the pyramid was built, it was around 481 feet tall. <strong>Today<\/strong>, because of erosion and the removal of the top piece, the <strong>pyramid is around 455 feet tall<\/strong>. At its base, each side is approximately 755 feet long.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is comprised of <strong>over two million blocks of stone<\/strong>. Each of the stone blocks is estimated to weigh over 2000 pounds (907 kg).<\/li>\n<li>Inside the Great Pyramid are <strong>three major rooms:<\/strong> the <strong>King&#8217;s Chamber, t<\/strong>he <strong>Queen&#8217;s Chamber, and the Grand Gallery<\/strong>. Small tunnels and air shafts lead to the chambers from the outside.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>pyramid\u2019s sides<\/strong> rise at an angle of 51.87\u00b0 and <strong>are accurately oriented to the four cardinal points of the compass.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Great Pyramid\u2019s <strong>core is made of yellowish limestone blocks<\/strong>, and the inner passages are of finer, light-coloured limestone.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>interior burial chamber<\/strong> is built of huge blocks of <strong>granite<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about the Pyramids of Giza:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>These are <strong>three 4th-dynasty<\/strong> (c. 2575\u2013c. 2465 BCE) <strong>pyramids<\/strong> erected on a rocky plateau on the west bank of the Nile River in northern Egypt.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>designations of<\/strong> the <strong>pyramids\u2014Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure<\/strong>\u2014<strong>correspond to the kings for whom they were built.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>northernmost and oldest<\/strong> pyramid of the group was <strong>built for Khufu<\/strong>, the second king of the 4th dynasty.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>middle pyramid<\/strong> was built <strong>for Khafre,<\/strong> the <strong>fourth <\/strong>of the eight <strong>kings of the 4th dynasty.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>southernmost<\/strong> and last pyramid to be built was <strong>that of Menkaure<\/strong>, the <strong>fifth king<\/strong> of the 4th dynasty.<\/li>\n<li>The Pyramids of Giza is the last remaining of the<strong> Seven Wonders of the ancient world.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are the Seven Wonders of the ancient world?<\/h3>\n<p>These ancient wonders are Colossus of Rhodes, Great Pyramid of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, and Lighthouse of Alexandria. Of these wonders, 4 were destroyed by earthquake, 2 were destroyed by fire, and 1 is still standing. Pyramids of Giza are the only ancient wonders still standing today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/travel\/travel-news\/mysterious-unknown-structure-discovered-near-giza-pyramids\/articleshow\/110109474.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mysterious unknown structure discovered near Giza pyramids<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Pyramid of Giza is an  ancient Egyptian pyramid that is the largest of the three Pyramids of Giza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}