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10 unusual facts about Giza


Adel Abdel-Hamid

He worked in prosecution until appointed a judge at Giza Court of First Instance in July 1973.

Asiris Nuna

When the mummy throws a statue of the Sphinx at a glass pane, the glass shatters prior to being hit.

The pyramids at Giza are shown to look the same during the days of the pharaohs as they do now.

From Atlantis to the Sphinx

Using The Sphinx as his starting point, Wilson explores the ramifications of an alternate time-line for the development of mankind, arguing that an advanced civilisation or civilisations existed in traditionally pre-historic times, in particular, the fabled Atlantis mentioned by Greek philosopher Plato in his work Timaeus.

Wilson develops this idea of civilisations founded on Lunar Knowledge together with astronomy to explain the monumental and seemingly spontaneous achievements of ancient cultures such as the Pyramid Complex at Giza in Egypt.

Georg Steindorff

Of particular importance are Steindorff's excavations in Giza, Qau, and Aniba between 1903 and 1931.

Golden Pharaoh

While on an expedition in Giza, he was struck by a bolt of energy emanating from the New Gods.

Sunita Kohli

This firm closed but other hotel design projects followed in Cairo, Aswan and El-Arish in Egypt- The Oberoi Mena House Hotel and Casino, overlooking the Pyramids of Giza; two luxury hotel cruise boats on the Nile for the Oberoi Group; The Oberoi Aswan in Upper Egypt and The Oberoi in El-Arish, on the north coast of the Sinai Peninsula on the Mediterranean Sea.

Tarek Nour Communications

Tarek Nour Communications a global marketing and communications company headquartered in Giza, Egypt.

Whitall Perry

He spent several decades abroad, living first in Giza, Egypt, where he met and frequented the French metaphysician René Guénon, and later in Lausanne, Switzerland where he became a close associate of the German metaphysician and mystic, Frithjof Schuon.


Abu Rawash

Abu Rawash (also known as Abu Roach, Abu Roash), 8 km to the North of Giza, is the site of Egypt's most northerly pyramid, also known as the lost pyramid — the mostly ruined Pyramid of Djedefre, the son and successor of Khufu.

Before the Fantastic Four: Reed Richards

After all three escape von Doom's clutches, they travel to Giza, because the Claw can only be completed at the Sphinx.

Belzoni, Oklahoma

Belzoni is named for Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778-1824), sometimes called “The Great Belzoni”, an Italian explorer and archeologist who was well known for his role in discovering or investigating ancient Egyptian historical sites, including the Great Pyramids of Giza.

Bible Lands Museum

The museum also exhibits scale models of ancient sites in Jerusalem, a Ziggurat at Ur and the pyramids at Giza.

Cairo Center for the Culture of Democracy

Among its recent acitivites is a workshop addressing the "Democratic Transformation in Egypt" conducted in seven different Egyptian cities: Al-areesh, Ras Sedr, Giza, Nuebaa', Bani Sewief, Alexandria and Cairo.

Chinese pyramids

They have flat tops, and thus are more similar in shape to the Teotihuacan pyramids north-east of Mexico City, Mexico than to the pyramids in Giza, Egypt.

Colin Reader

He suggested on the basis of weathering evidence that the Sphinix is older than its commonly accepted 4th dynastic date and instead it and two other buildings on the Giza Plaeau date to the early dynastic or late predynastic period.

George Price Boyce

In 1861, following the death of his sister, he went to Egypt, where he shared a house in Giza with Frank Dillon and Egron Lundgren until the February of the following year.

Giza Plateau

The plateau and its monuments have been recorded in the Giza Plateau Mapping Project run by Ancient Egypt Research Associates, directed by Dr. Mark Lehner.

Joseph P. Farrell

Farrell states that his books on Giza "takes off where Christopher Dunn's 'The Giza Power Plant' left off."

Kazeboon

Kazeboon screenings began on December 29, 2011, taking place in public squares in El Mansheya, Alexandria and the Cairo districts of Zamalek, Maadi, Nasr City and Giza.

Mosque of Sultan al-Muayyad

On his death, the sultan left behind several religious and secular monuments, including a khanqah in Giza, palaces along the Khalij and the Nile, and the Mosque of Sultan al-Mu'ayyad.

Naguib Kanawati

He has directed numerous excavations and epigraphic expeditions, at sites including the entire mountain of El-Hawawish (in excess of 800 Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period rock-cut tombs), Quseir El Amarna, El Hagarsa (near Sohag), Deir El Gebrawi, Giza, as well as the Unis and Teti pyramid cemeteries at Saqqara.

R.K.Sennaya Swamy Muthukrishnan

R.K.Sennaya Swamy Muthukrishnan is an Indian egyptologist best known for discovering the base triangles of the Egyptian pyramids of Giza are equal in angular measurements to those of the Sri Yantra,.

Robert Bauval

In particular, the aspects of the OCT which claim there is a link between the Ancient Egyptian structures at Giza and the constellations as they looked some 12,500 years ago are yet to find support from many within the field.

Soluto

Soluto is funded by Index Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Giza Venture Capital, Proxima Ventures, CrunchFund, Innovation Endeavors, Initial Capital, and angel investors including Chris Dixon, Yuval Neeman, Saar Gillai and Nadav Zohar.