where is pyramids located in egypt?
The Great Pyramid of Giza
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 In Egypt the temple of Amun @-@ Re at Karnak has been the subject of much study . Evaluation of the site , taking into account the change over time of the obliquity of the ecliptic show that the Great Temple was aligned on the rising of the midwinter sun . The length of the corridor down which sunlight would travel would have limited illumination at other times of the year . 

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 Perhaps the most imposing tomb of this period is that of Amenhotep III , WV22 located in the West Valley . It has been re @-@ investigated in the 1990s ( by a team from Waseda University , Japan ) but is not open to the public . 

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 The main innovation of the pyramid of Unas is the first appearance of the Pyramid Texts , one of the oldest religious texts in Egypt to have survived to this day . In doing so , Unas initiated a tradition that would be followed in the pyramid of the kings and queens of the Sixth to Eighth Dynasties , until the end of the Old Kingdom circa 200 years later . 

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 'c . 2345 BCE - First royal pyramid , of King Unas , to contain the Pyramid Texts , carved precursors ( intended only for the king ) to the funerary literature from which the Book of the Dead ultimately developed 

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 At the same time , and just opposite his own tomb , Ramesses enlarged the earlier small tomb of an unknown Eighteenth Dynasty noble ( KV5 ) for his numerous sons . With 120 known rooms and excavation work still underway , it is probably the largest tomb in the valley . Originally opened ( and robbed ) in antiquity , it is a low @-@ lying structure that has been particularly prone to the flash floods that sometimes hit the area , which washed in tonnes of debris and material over the centuries , ultimately concealing its vast size . It is not currently open to the public . 
