Time's other horizon -- Quests, puzzles and questions -- Giza in context -- Giza befor Khufu: beginning as a burial ground -- Origins of the pyramid -- Explorers, scholars and expeditions -- Pyramids: funeral, palace and ritual process -- The Great Pyramid of Khufu -- The second pyramid: Khafre -- The great sphinx -- The third pyramid: Mankaure -- The Khentkawes momunent: Giza's puncutuation point -- The development of the Giza cemeteries -- The workers' cemetery -- Living at Giza: worker settlements and pyramid towns -- How they might have built the pyramids -- Giza on the ground: the pyramid projects -- The abandonment of Giza -- New kingdom revival -- Giza in the late period -- Giza developments