”Here, at the edge of the Giza Plain, in the soft shade of evergreens, amidst high palms and sweet-smelling fig and fruit trees, you would probably have seen some of the houses of the royal administration, and perhaps a palace for the king and court and rooms for their attending workshops, all built of mud and brick, and wood and wattle. Buildings that may well have been built on an ad hoc basis and swept away when the Great Pyramid was finished, or alternatively whose scanty ruin may still form part of the deep-buried settlements that lie underneath the modern plain or be piled up somewhere, a buried mass of sand and rubble, on the deserts edge.” The Great Pyramid: Ancient Egypt Revisited, by John Romer, page 142.
”There is little archaeological evidence found at Giza to prove the existence of the palace of Khufu. However, a few limestone blocks were found during the construction of the sewage system in the village of Nazlet el-Semman, and I believe that this could be the remains of the palace. The blocks were found south of the valley temple. There is much evidence to suggest that the king’s residence was the pyramid site, and that Memphis (now MIt Rahina) was the [sic] primarily important as the location of the temple of the god Ptah; thus the palace of the king would have been at Giza, and this is a likely place for such a structure.” Structure And Significance, Thoughts on Ancient Egyptian Architecture, Editor Peter Jánosi, [2005], Khufu’s National Project. The Great Pyramid of Giza in the year 2528 B. C., by Zahi Hawass, page 324.
”On Saturday, September 26th I was contacted by a correspondent in the United States who said that a friend of hers living in Nazlet el-Samman, the village next to the Giza plateau, had heard that six people had been killed the previous day after a deep pit they had dug beneath a local house near the Sphinx collapsed in on them. Rumour had it that they were attempting to reach a lost city or palace of Khufu that legend asserted was located beneath the village…” Khufu’s Lost Temple Found At Giza?, by Andrew Collins, Newsletter Vol. 12 No. 3 (October 2009).
”I think probably somewhere nearby, possibly right underneath the modern town, is a very large, royal center, possibly a palace. A palace where the kings who built the Pyramids—Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure—lived while the Pyramids were rising on the plateau…
I think it is highly probable that the pharaohs had at least one of their residences, one of their palaces, nearby the construction site. Some of the trenches of the sewage project broke through colossal walls of mud brick lined with stone. Some uncovered extensive pavements. More recently, construction 500 meters away from the edge of the plateau found a colossal wall along a street called Zaghloul Street made out of limestone and basalt, a dark, granite-like stone. Big stuff is out there underneath the modern town, what once was a series of villages.” NOVA, Excavating the Lost City, Mark Lehner, 1JAN2010.
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