You're looking at a skeleton. The pyramids were originally covered in smooth white polished limestone from base to tip. They glowed in the desert. You could see them from miles away. Golden capstones on top that burned like fire in the sunlight. In 1303 an earthquake shook Cairo. The white stones cracked and fell. Local rulers took them and built an entire city with them. Block by block the white skin was stripped away. What you see today is just what was hiding underneath. For 3,800 years they