According to news outlet Reuters , the 4,600 year old structure will be used as a tourist attraction, with visitors able to climb down a 79m tunnel from a raised entrance on the
pyramid's northern face.
Although the
pyramid has been closed since its entrance was discovered up until now for restoration works, the ministry has decided to open it up for the public to visit.
Some 400 volunteers working in teams of 50 spent four days pasting strips of printed paper on the cobbles of the courtyard, creating a giant patchwork around the
pyramid commissioned by late Socialist president Francois Mitterrand.
The main news headlines and social media controversies in Egypt has been evolving around Andreas Hvid, a Danish photographer who published a video and several nude photos of him with a female model while sneaking to the top of the Great
Pyramid of Giza in the middle of the night.
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Wednesday's statement says the
pyramid of King Khafre, one of the three Great
Pyramids gracing the Giza province south of Cairo, will be ready to receive tourists starting Thursday.
After 14 years working on the historic buildings and temples of Egypt, most recently the world's oldest
pyramid, James is in a unique position to decode the historic construction from a builder's perspective - at times against many long-held assumptions.
Egypt's Great
Pyramid of Giza may be hiding a great secret.
Scientists using an imaging method based on cosmic rays have detected a large and enigmatic internal structure in the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing, the massive Great
Pyramid of Giza on the outskirts of Cairo.
Over 4500 years ago, the Egyptian pharaoh Khufu ordered a
pyramid built as his royal tomb.