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The Giza Necropolis stands on the Giza Plateau, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. This complex of ancient monuments includes the three pyramids known as the Great Pyramids, along with the massive sculpture known as the Great Sphinx. It is located some 9 km (5 mi) inland into the desert from the old town of Giza on the Nile, some 25 km (15 mi) southwest of Cairo city centre. One of the iconic monuments, the Great Pyramid of Giza, is the only remaining monument of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
هذا المجمع من الآثار القديمة وتشمل الأهرامات الثلاثة المعروفة باسم أهرامات الجيزة ، إلى جانب نحت ضخم يعرف باسم أبو الهول. ويقع حوالي 9 كم (5 ميل) في الصحراء الداخلية من البلدة القديمة من الجيزة على النيل ، نحو 25 كيلومترا (15 ميلا) الى الجنوب الغربي من وسط مدينة القاهرة. واحدة من المعالم البارزة ، وأهرامات الجيزة ، والنصب الوحيد المتبقي من عجائب الدنيا السبع في العالم القديم.
The Louvre Pyramids were designed by the architect I. M. Pei. The structure, constructed entirely with glass segments, reaches a height of 20.6 meters (about 70 feet); its square base has sides of 35 meters (115 ft). It consists of 603 rhombus-shaped and 70 triangular glass segments.
The construction of the pyramid triggered considerable controversy because many people felt that the futuristic edifice looked quite out of place in front of the Louvre Museum with its classical architecture. Others came to appreciate the juxtaposing of contrasting architectural styles as a successful merger of the old and the new, the classical and the ultra-modern.
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The Pyramid Lake in the Branitzer Park, Cottbus, with the Wasserpyramide (water pyramid) a little left of center.
A pyramid is a structure whose shape is roughly that of a pyramid in the geometric sense;
That is, its outer surfaces are triangular and converge to a single point at the top.
Les Pyramides is a supple pliant cuff of two rows of little pyramid shaped beads. Embellished and connected in a series of picots that appear complex and intriguing, just like the mysteries of the great pyramids.
A cuff that is suitable for the beginning beader to the advanced.
Quick and fun to make but bold in statement.
Le monumental temple funéraire de Khéphren (ou temple haut) mesure 111 × 48 m et est séparé du massif de la pyramide. Bien que bâti suivant les mêmes conventions qu'au temple d'accueil, il n'en demeure aujourd'hui que de maigres vestiges. Cinq fosses à barques, vides, bordent les murs extérieurs du temple. Construits en calcaire, les murs intérieurs étaient tous entièrement recouverts de granite rose d'Assouan ainsi que les murs extérieurs, mais seulement sur les premières assises. Le sol était recouvert d'albâtre.
La chaussée montante conduisait à un hall d'entrée se séparant en une pièce en U au sud et en une antichambre à l'est. Des magasins disposés en dents de peigne étaient accessibles par le mur nord de l'antichambre. Cette dernière menait successivement à une première salle hypostyle orientée est-ouest et à une deuxième salle hypostyle orientée nord-sud dont le plan général rappelle nettement la salle en T du temple d'accueil. Les toitures étaient soutenues par des piliers monolithes en granite rose. La salle hypostyle la plus à l'ouest communiquait, par un petit couloir, avec une grande cour entourée de piliers osiriaques. La description de la partie publique s'arrête ici. L'accès aux autres appartements n'était autorisé qu'aux prêtres chargés du culte funéraire. Ces appartements, outre des magasins, comportaient le saint des saints, c'est-à-dire la chambre la plus à l'ouest comportant dans son mur occidental, une niche contenant une stèle fausse-porte.
Le temple d'accueil (ou temple de la vallée, ou bien encore temple bas) du complexe funéraire de Khéphren, situé juste au sud du temple du sphinx, est le seul temple de l'Ancien empire qui nous soit parvenu dans un tel état de conservation. Son plan est carré et ses côtés mesurent 44,10 m. Les murs extérieurs de 13 m de haut, présentent un fruit accentué, comme dans tous les temples de l'Ancien empire2. Le massif, construit en calcaire, était entièrement recouvert de granite rose d'Assouan. L'appareillage de pierres fut exécuté ici, plus que dans tout autre temple, de manière irrégulière et présentant la maçonnerie comme un gigantesque puzzle. La façade présentait deux portes, l'une au sud, l'autre au nord. Chaque porte était flanquée de deux sphinx longs de 8 m et larges de 2 m. Ces entrées donnaient chacune sur un vestibule haut de 9,40 m, aboutissant sur une antichambre orientée nord-sud et longue de 20 m. Celle-ci était couverte de dalles de granite larges de 5 m et son sol pavé de blocs d'albâtre.
Auguste Mariette découvrit en 1860, dans un puits creusé dans le sol du vestibule nord, la célèbre statue de Khéphren en diorite représentant le pharaon protégé par le faucon Horus. Derrière la porte centrale dans le mur ouest de l'antichambre se trouve une salle hypostyle communément appelée "salle en T", dont le plafond est soutenu par seize piliers monolithes en granite. À l'origine, vingt-trois statues en albâtre, en schiste et en diorite représentant le roi assis, étaient adossées contre les parois de cette salle. Chaque extrémité de la paroi ouest de la salle en T présente une porte. Celle du sud donne accès à trois salles allongées, à deux étages et disposées en dents de peignes. Celle du nord donne accès à la chaussée montante longue de 494,60 m qui relie le temple d'accueil au temple funéraire (cf. wikipédia, merci Messer Woland pour la photo).
Pyramid Lake is the geographic sink of the Truckee River Basin, 40 mi (64 km) northeast of Reno. Pyramid Lake is fed by the Truckee River, which is mostly the outflow from Lake Tahoe. The Truckee River enters Pyramid Lake at its southern end. Pyramid Lake has no outlet, with water leaving only by evaporation, or sub-surface seepage (an endorheic lake). The lake has about 10% of the area of the Great Salt Lake, but it has about 25% more volume. The salinity is approximately 1/6 that of sea water. Although clear Lake Tahoe forms the headwaters that drain to Pyramid Lake, the Truckee River delivers more turbid waters to Pyramid Lake after traversing the steep Sierra terrain and collecting moderately high silt-loaded surface runoff.
A remnant of the Pleistocene Lake Lahontan (~890 feet deep), the lake area was inhabited by the 19th-century Paiute, who used the Tui chub and Lahontan cutthroat trout from the lake(the former is now endangered and the latter is threatened). The lake was first mapped in 1844 by John C. Frémont, the American discoverer of the lake who also gave it its English title.
In the 19th century two battles were fought near the lake, major actions in the Paiute War. In the 1960s a marker was placed commemorating these battles.
Because of water diversion beginning in 1905 by Derby Dam, the lake's existence was threatened, and the Paiute sued the Department of the Interior. By the mid-1970s, the lake had lost 80 feet of depth, and according to Paiute fisheries officials, the life of the lake was seriously under threat.
Pyramid Lake is located in southeastern Washoe County in western Nevada. It is in an elongated intermontane basin between the Lake Range on the east, the Virginia Mountains on the west and the Pah Rah Range on the southwest. The Fox Range and the Smoke Creek Desert lie to the north.
In a parallel basin to the east of the Lake Range is Winnemucca Lake now a dry lake bed. Prior to the construction of the Derby Dam in 1905 both lake levels stood at near 3,880 ft (1,180 m).[8] Following the dam completion the water levels dropped to 3,867 ft (1,179 m) and 3,853 ft (1,174 m) for Pyramid and Winnemucca respectively. In 1957 Pyramid Lake level was at 3,802 ft (1,159 m) and the dry Winnemucca Lake bed at 3,780 ft (1,150 m) had been dry since the 1930s.
The lake is the largest remnant of ancient Lake Lahontan that covered much of northwestern Nevada at the end of the last ice age. Pyramid Lake was the deepest point in Lake Lahontan, reaching an estimated 890 feet (270 m) due to its low level relative to the surrounding basins.
The name of the lake comes from the impressive cone or pyramid shaped tufa formations found in the lake and along the shores. The largest such formation, Anaho Island, is home to a large colony of American White Pelicans and is restricted for ecological reasons. Access to the Needles, another spectacular tufa formation at the northern end of the lake has also been restricted due to recent vandalism.
Major fish species include the cui-ui lakesucker, which is endemic to Pyramid Lake, the Tui chub and Lahontan cutthroat trout (the world record cutthroat trout was caught in Pyramid Lake). The former is endangered, and the latter is threatened. Both species were of critical importance to the Paiute people in pre-contact times.
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These pyramids are part of the art found in Kent, Washington, the small city where I live. It was pouring rain when I went out for my daily photo shoot, but I managed to get a few shots.
With this project I was inspired by an obelisk. I have always liked the way they stand out and I wanted to create something that had a bold presence. I also wanted to give the sense that the piece is moving in a way, as if the different parts were sliding off of each other and we are watching it happen. I used the shape of a triangle, but then cut it up. The diagonal lines create a sense of movement throughout the piece.
It is the first pyramid in Egypt and was built for the Pharaoh Zoser (about 2667-2648BC). This is a step-pyramid and the architect is the legendary Imhotep.
Pyramid Lake is an amazing place to visit. I believe it to be the most beautiful desert lake in the nation. It has the largest cutthroat trout (Lahontan Cutthroat) in the world as well.
An old figure from when I used paint and non-lego elements a lot more. However, I liked Pyramid Head enough to keep him around un-altered.
The Pyramid of Unas dates back to the end of the 5th Dynasty (24th century BC) and whilst its external appearance has been reduced to a large ruined mound its internal chambers remain intact and are decorated with hieroglyphic texts, the first used in any tomb, giving spells and incantations to assist the journey of the deceased's soul in the afterlife.
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Saqqara, the necropolis of Memphis, is one of the most fascinating sites in Egypt, as well as one of its earliest. The major monument here is Djoser's step pyramid, the earliest stone-built architectural monument which dominates the site.
Other pharaohs built pyramids here though most have not survived in such good conditions and some were never even finished. Two of the pyramids (those of Unas and Teti) contain chambers decorated with hieroglyph texts (the so called 'Pyramid Texts') that are amongst the earliest manifestations of ancient Egyptian writing.
The most significant survival from an artistic point of view however are the many early mastaba tombs (built from mud-brick and adorned with fine limestone reliefs within). Most visitors will not have time to do them justice and may have to just choose a couple to focus on if making a first visit. The art is of a very high quality and quite remote stylistically from the more esoteric scenes within the much later tombs of Thebes.
Saqqara can be a bewildering site to explore at first, but a little prior research will reveal the locations and best places to visit.
Giza Pyramids are one of the seven wonders of world whose construction has amazed the whole world.
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I had limited time on Thursday to start photographing Winnipeg neons at night, so I restricted myself to 4 locations which were reasonably close to my house. However, in travelling to these locations, surprisingly, I found at least twice that many neons to shoot. This is one of unplanned neons.
The Pyramid is a young people's club offering live rock bands. It was closed the night that I visited and there were no other lights nearby, so I was able to get this sign against a virtually black background. The club was previously called The Spectrum and had an even better neon.
Winnipeg, MB.
Pharao KHUFU built this pyramid in around 2560 B.C. It was originally 146.6 metres tall, but 4500 years has caused erosion to its present day height of 138.8 metres. It was the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3800 years until 160 metres tall Lincoln Cathedral was built in around 1300 A.D.