Gizeh

Gizeh, or GHIZEH, a small town in Egypt, on the opposite side of the river from Old Cairo, and approached from Cairo by the great swinging bridge constructed over the Nile in 1872. It is but a poor place, with a pop. of some 10,500. Artificial egg-hatching has been practised here since the days of the Pharaohs. Since 1889 the museum of Egyptian antiquities, formerly at Boulak, has been housed here. The Pyramids (q.v.) of Gizeh (also spelt Giza) lie five miles to the west.