The Giza Plateau, on the western bank of the Nile River across from Cairo, was part of the necropolis of ancient Memphis. Egyptian Pharaohs of the Fourth Dynasty built the impressive pyramids here, which became one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
They were all completed by the latter half of the 3rd millennium BC and, therefore would have been standing when Abraham went to Egypt to escape a famine.
There may be an interesting link between the Exodus and the Great Sphinx on the Giza Plateau—an inscription on the front, commissioned by Thutmose IV, says he received a divine promise that the kingship would be given to him.
The inscription suggests that Thutmose IV, the 2nd son of Amenhotep II, did not have first claim to the throne. However, the death of his older brother, the first born (perhaps killed in the final plague of Egypt?), allowed him to gain power.
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