Secrets of the Great Pyramid
Rajan Datar and guests explore the largest pyramid ever built - the Great Pyramid of Giza, also known as the Pyramid of Khufu after the Pharaoh who commissioned it as his tomb.
The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt is one of the greatest wonders of the ancient world. It is the largest pyramid ever built and even today, with advanced satellite and thermal imaging and other high tech science, we don鈥檛 know everything about the pyramid- exactly what鈥檚 inside or how it was built. To explore the history of The Great Pyramid - also known as the Pyramid of Khufu, after the Pharaoh who commissioned it as his tomb - Rajan Datar is joined by Salima Ikram, Distinguished University Professor and Egyptology Unit Head at the American University in Cairo, space archaeologist Sarah Parcak, a National Geographic fellow and Professor at Birmingham University Alabama in the USA, and Professor Joyce Tyldesley, an archaeologist and Egyptologist from the University of Manchester in the UK.
Photo: The Pyramids at Giza (Getty Images)
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