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| Keywords: The Great Pyramid of Cheops by Boston Public Library.jpg Scrapbook page with a photograph of three Egyptian men with camels standing in front of the Cheops Pyramid annotated with information about the pyramid's history and construction Subjects Egypt travel photography pyramids tombs Jīzah Ahrāmāt al- Page size 33 x 38 1 cm Annotations It shuts out the sky and the horizon It shuts out the other pyramids It shuts out every thing but a sense of awe and wonder Lepsius dates it back B C 3091 67 E A Wallis Budge of British Museum 3733 B C Miss Edwards + Mariette 4 200 B C Herodotus says 100 000 men were occupied in building the road over which the stone for its construction was brought and 20 years more on its erection This stone 85 000 000 cubic feet was taken from the quarries of Tura Masara 20 to 30 miles away It is now 451 feet high and was originally 480 ft Each of its four sides is 755 ft long and the Pyramid covers thirteen acres of ground At sunset its shadow stretches out ¾ of a mile Language English photograph has French title Rights No known restrictions Coverage Egypt Notes Title supplied by cataloger derived from captions or annotated information Format Scrapbooks Technique Photographs Albumen prints BPL Department Print Department Photo 1 Photographer G Lékégian Cie Title Gd Pyramide de Cheops No 15 Caption The Great Pyramid of Cheops Date ca 1865-1895 Flickr data on 2011-08-03 Camera Sinar AG Sinarback 54 FW Sinar m License CC BY 2 0 User Boston Public Library BPL Flickr http //flickr com/photos/24029425 N06/2468304697 The Great Pyramid of Cheops December 21 1892 March 8 1893 Flickr upload date 2008-05-01 17 10 48 William Vaughn Tupper Flickr uploader http //www flickr com/people/24029425 N06 BPL User Flickr upload bot/upload 14 47 3 August 2011 UTC Fæ CC BY 2 0 PD-old-100 Historical images of Great Pyramid 1890s Tupper Scrapbooks volume 26 Lower Egypt G Lekegian Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
