Great Pyramid Of Giza Research Paper

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The Great Pyramid of Giza was built for the fourth dynasty king, Pharaoh Khufu. The big pyramid was to symbolize the Pharaoh Khufu, the smaller pyramid was made to symbolize the son of Khufu which was the Pharaoh Khefre and the much smaller pyramid was to symbolize the grandson of Khufu, Pharaoh Menkaure. The pyramids were built to protect the bodies of the mummified bodies of their Pharaohs bodies. Modern day historians have thought to believe that the pyramids were built in a triangular shape because the triangular shape would symbolize the Pharaoh's journey to the afterlife. They had built the pyramids on the west side of the Nile River in the path of the setting sun. There is one theory that suggests that the pyramid may have been used