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Definition(s):
- (n) a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides; begun by Cheops around 2700 BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt
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- In the heart of each great pyramidand there are many of themmay lie other grisly sanctuaries that have awaited discovery for 1,000 years.
- Straying slightly off the beaten tourist path, Mendelssohn visited the great pyramid at Medm, one of the first built by the Egyptians, about 50 miles south of Cairo.
- About 100 yards east of the great pyramid of Cheops, in the final cleaning of debris, a patch of white plaster was discovered.
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