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The pyramids are located on the Giza plateau on the west bank of the Nile River. The pyramids were built between 2480 and 2550 BC. AD Among the most famous pyramids are Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure And the pyramids are royal tombs, and each of them bears the name of the king who built it and was buried in it, and the hierarchical construction is a stage in the development of tomb architecture in ancient EgyptSights
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The construction of the tombs began with a small pit that later turned into an underground room and then into several rooms topped with a terrace, after which it developed to take the form of a pyramidal step, and that was at the hands of the engineer Imhotep, who was the minister of Pharaoh Djoser in the Third Dynasty. This was followed by two attempts by King Senefru, founder of the Fourth Dynasty, to build a complete hierarchical form. However, errors occurred during the construction in their attempt, and the second attempt was not completed accurately. They are located in Dahshur, one of them has a flattened base, and the other has a smaller shape, about half the size of the first