Pyramids in Giza Pyramids in Giza
From 7 wonders of the world of the old world only pyramids of Giza have resisted time falsities. «Fifty centuries look at you from a top of these monuments!» - воскрикнул Napoleon;« Joke over history» - someone has made of guests objection. Stately pyramid of Cheops has caused more than scientific and amateur speculation, than though what other monument on the earth. For million people of a pyramid in Giza embody an antiquity and mysteriousness. Overflowed with expectations, you can find reality disappointing. From far away they are similar to small triangles, and but to an approach measure they are more similar to the mountains worn out by time which huge weight can seem surprisingly two-dimensional when you look at them from below. Pyramids are not among the deathly desert, as it can seem if to look at a card with their image, they are specifically on the suburb of the small town of Giza. In the afternoon of crowd of barkers and tourists dispel though what feeling of mysticism which is done by surrounding sounds and light after haze coming. To like greatness of pyramids it is possible on a decline and at a dawn of day or already late a night.
As show site plans, orientation of pyramids is not casual. Their entrances are aimed across North star (more exact, by its situation 4500 years ago), internal funeral chambers are turned on the West, in the direction of Earth dead, and external doleful temples are focused on the East in the direction to a rising sun. Say also that three pyramids symbolise three stars of a belt of Orion. In much worst condition there are the roads conducting to so called to "valley temples» both different minor pyramids and tombs мастаба. The supreme council of antiquities of Egypt (Supreme Council of Antiquities) carries out repair of all district, which
continues to give surprises. Namely, not so long ago in the Stately pyramid the hidden camera in what as certain specialists consider, the same amazing treasures, as can be stored in a tomb of Tutankhamun is open, maybe. Are found also earlier unknown small pyramid about a southeast corner of pyramid of Cheops with oldest of ever found piramidiony (A zamkovy stone) and tunnels under places for the audience opposite to the Sphinx, age and which mission are unknown till this moment.
