Everyone knows that the Egyptian pyramids are ancient — but exactly how old are they? Historians estimate that they were ...

Now it's up to you to see if you can create scale models of the other two pyramids on the Giza Plateau, Khafre and Menkaure. Here are their actual dimensions: ...

Natural erosion and human intervention led to most of the limestone casing disappearing ... The lower levels of the Khafre Pyramid and the Pyramid of Menkaure sported red granite cladding ...

And the facade of Menkaure’s high temple is aligned ... Its distinctive cap is formed by the white limestone casing, with which all the Giza Pyramids were originally faced.

Visitors take a ride below the Khafre Pyramid. You start facing the Khafre Pyramid and the smaller Menkaure Pyramid to its left. Working around to the right, you can see, to the north, the Great ...

The third structure, the Pyramid of Menkaure, stands as the smallest of the Pyramids of Giza and was constructed by Khafre's successor to the throne, Menkaure. You are welcome to explore the ...