The smallest of the three Great Pyramids — just 65 metres high, less than half Khufu's original height — built around 2510 BC for pharaoh Menkaure. Despite its modest size it has an unusually elaborate valley complex: three subsidiary queens' pyramids line its south side, and the mortuary temple yielded some of the finest sculpture of the Old Kingdom, including a series of magnificent slate triads now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
The interior passage leads to a decorated anteroom and a granite-lined burial chamber. Because most tourists spend their time at Khufu's pyramid, you will often have Menkaure's interior almost to yourself. Standing at the south-western corner of the Giza Plateau, it also offers the best panoramic view of all three pyramids in one line — the classic shot that makes the scale of the whole complex clear.