#@giza

[odinsblog]

Thread on alternative views of iconic landmarks you (probably) haven’t seen before 🧵

1. Mount Fuji from a plane window.

2. Arc de Triomphe, Paris

3. Aerial view of Kaaba, Mecca

4. A view of the Taj Mahal that you do not usually see, highlighting the stark contrast between opulence and poverty divided by a single wall.

5. Top down view of the Statue of Liberty

6. The backside of Tutankhamun's burial mask

7. The dome of St. Peter’s Basilica seen through Rome's most famous keyhole.

8. The worn steps of the Tower of Pisa

9. Photographer Alexander Ladanivskyy, in collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism, captured an extraordinary drone shot of the Great Pyramid of Giza from an unusual perspective.

10. The Shanhai Pass, where the Great Wall of China meets the ocean.

for images 11 - 25, please see the source, here

[rudjedet]

downside: going to have to include a picture of the Giza pyramids in the slides for the lecture upside: i get to give people a crash course in why perspective matters in two frames, because

followed by

is such a funny sequence

[zegalba]

Crescent moon gracting the Pyramid of Khafre, Giza, Egypt

[humanoidhistory]

A total solar eclipse over Egypt, illustrated in a 1911 edition of Astronomy for All by Bruno Hans Bürgel (1875-1948).

[m1male2]

Egipto

[balkanparamo]

The Great Pyramids: Marisa Papen

[nemfrog]

The Pyramids and the Sphinx. The world: historical and actual. 1882.

Internet Archive

[fabforgottennobility]

Frames from Giza, Egypt 

[iko66]

Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt

[archaeoart]

The Sphinx and pyramids at Giza, Egypt, circa 1881.

[mapsontheweb]

The Pyramid Complex at Giza

The Pyramid Complex at Giza is dominated by the three pyramids constructed on the Giza plateau on the west bank of the Nile during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt (c. 2575-2465 BCE). The pyramids are assumed to have been built as the final resting place for the three pharaohs Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure. 

The northernmost and oldest pyramid (also called the Great Pyramid) is that of Khufu, the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty, with a side length at its base of 230 metres and an original height of almost 150 metres. It was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one still in existence. The middle pyramid to the south is that of Khafre, the fourth pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty, and measures some 216 metres on each side and originally rose some 140 metres. The southernmost and smallest pyramid is that of Menkaure, the fifth pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty, with each side measuring 109 metres and a height of 66 metres. 

All three pyramids originally had an outer casing of white limestone which was largely removed throughout the ages for use in other structures. Only Khafre's pyramid retains some of its outer casing at the top. Each pyramid complex also contains a funerary temple, as well as the resting places of queens and members of the nobility. Khafre's pyramid complex also contains the Great Sphinx, a mythical creature carved out of limestone. Surrounding the pyramids are extensive grid-patterned fields of mastabas for officials and lesser relatives of the pharaohs.

by undevicesimus/deviantart

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Why did egyptians build the pyramids?

An early pharaoh got sick of people condescendingly saying "We are equal in the grave," and sure showed them.

[blueiscoool]

Footage of the Giza Pyramid Complex Being Built in Egypt c. 2600 – c. 2500 BC.

An archaeologist has found ancient film in a hidden vault under the great pyramid of Giza.

This explains everything! 😉

[zegalba]

Fairouz by the Giza Pyramids (1989)

[henk-heijmans]

Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt, 1921 - by Donald McLeish (1879 - 1950), English

[historynerdj2]

History Memes #65