The Giza Archives

Giza Overview Maps, Plans & Panoramas

These items represent experiments in immersive photography and other interactive technologies designed to enhance access to the Giza Necropolis and the research materials on this website.
ORIENTATION PHOTO OF THE GIZA NECROPOLIS
ZOOMABLE PLANS OF THE GIZA NECROPOLIS
WESTERN CEMETERY
EASTERN CEMETERY
CENTRAL FIELD
CEMETERY G I-SOUTH
ZOOMABLE AERIAL & SATELLITE PHOTOS
360-degree interactive panoramas of Giza in QuickTime Virtual Reality format (QTVR)
360-degree interactive panoramas of Museum Giza collections in QuickTime Virtual Reality format (QTVR)
Subterranean chapel of Meresankh III
(G 7530-7540): January 13, 2004 (PDM_00769)
Audio File Candidates
  • February 6, 1938, 11:00 pm: live NBC interview from the entrance to the Great Pyramid at Giza (George Reisner, William Stevenson Smith, Miss Mary Reisner, Selim Hassan, Walter Bryan Emery, Rex Keating, Edward Chorlain) [about 20 minutes]
  • "Mother of Cheops:" 1950 BBC documentary on the 1925 discovery of the tomb of Queen Hetep-heres (G 7000 X) [about 1 hour]
  • October 19, 1971: Interview with curator Dows Dunham at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [about 94 minutes]
Video File Candidates
  • March 17, 1930: British Pathe clip of visit of Queen Marie of Romania to Cairo the Giza Pyramids (George Reisner, Queen Marie, her youngest daughter Princess Ileana), cemetery G 7000
  • Harvard Semitic Museum Giza videotape (Mark Lehner et al.)
  • 1990's: Menkaure Pyramid Temple "time lapse" views from Menkaure Pyramid, 1906–1907
  • 1927: Queen Hetep-heres (G 7000 X): clearance of canopic niche
Two views of the north end of the subterranean chapel of
Meresankh III (G 7530-7540): shortly after excavation and more recently (A4676 and Brian Snyder photo, 1999)