A clay model of the Great Pyramid of Giza, rendered in Rosé Pine red on a dark background
A site model of the Great Pyramid of Giza in its neighbourhood: the landmark in Rosé Pine red among grey buildings, with its water in blue

Beside it, its neighbourhood: buildings and water from OpenStreetMap, the ground from the map's terrain tiles.

Giza · Egypt

Great Pyramid of Giza

139 metres · 456 feet

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Height
139 m456 ft
Completed
c. 2560 BC
By
Pharaoh Khufu
Coordinates
29° 58′ 45″ N31° 08′ 03″ E · 29.9792, 31.1342

Built 146.6 metres tall and now 138.5, its sides 230 metres at the base and set within a few arcminutes of north. The three small queens’ pyramids stand in a row along its east side.

Modelled from simple shapes at roughly its true size, and rendered in clay. The map draws the rest the one way it draws everything: the ground under Giza, as contour lines coloured by height, with its water and its names.

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