Mark Lehner
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Mark Lehner is an American archaeologist with more than 30 years of experience excavating in Egypt. He is the director of Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA) and has appeared in numerous tv documentaries.
Sphinx at Giza Plateau in Egypt
Giza Plateau
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The Giza Plateau is a limestone plateau in Giza, Egypt, the site of the Fourth Dynasty Giza pyramid complex, which includes the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, the Great Sphinx, several cemeteries, a workers' village and an industrial complex. It forms the northernmost part of the 16,000 ha Pyramid Fields in the Western Desert edge of the Nile Valley that are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Memphis and its Necropolis.
From north to south: parts of the city of Giza, the Giza Necropolis, and part of the Giza plateau
Great Sphinx of Giza
Image: Pyramids of the Giza Necropolis
The Plateau seen from afar in 1955