Few places on earth demand as much of your imagination as the Giza Pyramid Complex, the last surviving wonder of the ancient world and still, after 4,500 years, one of the most disorienting things a human being can stand next to. The Great Pyramid of Khufu held the record as the tallest man-made structure on the planet for nearly 3,800 years — a fact that becomes viscerally real the moment you approach on foot and realise the scale simply refuses to compute. Alongside it stand the pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure, the enigmatic Great Sphinx, and a sprawl of mastaba tombs, causeways, and mortuary temples that make this far more than a backdrop for photographs.
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