Tripod signals of Giza

the Third place on a population after Cairo and Alexandrias is occupied with Giza (more 900  thousand inhabitants). Actually it merges with Cairo. Nearby to a city are well-known drevneegipetskie tripod signals, including largest of them - tripod signal Heopsa.

One of light miracles - tripod signal Heopsa, builted in 2650 B.C., and also other monuments of former power of Ancient Egypt are on plateau Kafr the expert-samman. Neighbourhoods of tripod signals are declared by reserved region. The big tripod signal - tripod signal Heopsa - in an antiquity attained 146  m, now the overhead part of a tripod signal its present altitude is destroyed also compounds 137  m. On building the Big tripod signal has left 2,3  million stone blocks in average weight 2,5  t each. In days of Heopsa tripod signal basils have been faced by the polished plates from a fine-grained sandstone which then have been used on building of palaces mamljukskih plumes and a structure of dwellings in Cairo. About volume used at tripod signal building a stuff it is possible to judge on such fact: according to counts of the English scientists, on building of all Christian churches in England has left less stuff, than on one Big tripod signal.

The Entry in the Big tripod signal pristinely was from a North side, in the order 13th of some granite plates. Now it is occluded. To penetrate in a tripod signal it is possible on the man-hole abandoned by ancient predators. The narrow alleyway conducts at first almost horizontally surfaces in a tripod signal, then all is gradually lifted above and above. On it you get to the chamber of the spouse of the pharaon which is in the tripod signal middle, approximately in 120  m from its apex. Having returned it is a little back and having lifted on a narrow wood ladder in the granite portico leaving under an angle 30 °, it appear in the funeral chamber where there is sarcophagus Heopsa. To the people subject klaustrofobii, it is not recommended there is in a tripod signal a long time.

Near to the Big tripod signal tripod signal Hefrena, son Heopsa (136,5 towers). It is a unique tripod signal at which apex the part of pristine facing was saved. Tripod signal Hefrena represents in due course a uniform complex with the granite temple which ruins are nearby the Big sphinx - mysterious beings with a trunk of a lion and a head of the person who has been cut down from one stone. Length of a sphinx from a tip of claws to a tail - 57,3  m, altitude - 20  m. At huge claws a sphinx the small temple, now completely destroyed was sheltered. In Egypt, in Average and New kingdom sphinxes were represented often with a head of the ram or of the falcon. For example, in the Karnaksky temple the whole avenue baranogolovyh sphinxes was saved. However the Big sphinx in Giza - most ancient of the Egyptian sphinxes. Apparently, sphinxes played a role of guards of sacred places.

Smaller from tripod signals of Giza - tripod signal Mikerina, grandson Heopsa, extreme from a West side. Its altitude - 66  m, and length of each of the establishment parties - 108  m. the Considerable part of stuffs from this tripod signal has gone on manufacturing of a Cairo Citadel, therefore it was saved worse the others. To the south from a tripod signal three small dilapidated tripod signals have stood in a row. Along all rocky plateau on which there are tripod signals of Giza, numerous burial places of guards of a necropolis, grandees and the approached three pharaons of IV dynasty - builders of tripod signals are had.

To the present time it is known about existence about 80 Egyptian tripod signals. All of them are had in necropolises - ancient cities dead which were stretched on the western I protect Nile as on representation of ancient Egyptians, the country dead where the castle of the god of sun Ra is hauled down in the west lays.