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Gizeh (Giza)
(29°59' N 31°08'E)

Petrie 1907: "The importance of Gizeh in the IVth dynasty is known to every one by the three pyramids of the kings; but discoveries of late years indicated that there had been an earlier cemetery to the south of the pyramid region."

Tomb of the First Dynasty

The pyramids of the Fourth Dynasty (links to other web sites)

stone fragments demonstrating stone working

Ptolemaic Period objects found at Gizeh


Publications of Flinders Petrie:

Distribution of finds from Gizeh and Rifeh 1907 (of Petrie's excavation)


 

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