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Aerial Photograph of the Great Pyramids at Giza
The great pyramids at Giza were built as funerary monuments by kings of the 4th Dynasty around 2575-2500 BCE, during Egypt’s Old Kingdom. Pyramids represented royal control of a vast quantity of labor and are enduring symbols of these early kings’ power.
The Egyptian state was founded in perhaps 3100 BCE and lasted for about 1,000 years before it briefly collapsed in a period of instability, only to be re-established in the Middle Kingdom.
Name: The Great Pyramids at Giza
Material: Limestone
Size: Varies between three pyramids
Date: ca. 2575–2500 BCE, 4th Dynasty
Place of Origin: Giza, Egypt
Location: Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Source and Registration#:
Oriental Institute, Roll 32, Frame 13
Artist: James Henry Breasted, Jr.
Name: Aerial Photograph of the Great Pyramids at Giza
Material: Nitrate Negative
Size: 35mm
Date: 1932
Place of Origin: Giza, Egypt
Location: Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Geoff Emberling
Former Chief Curator, Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago
