About Us

Pyramids of Giza is an offer with exactly one topic. It covers the Giza Plateau and everything related to visiting it, in German and with the depth that a place of this significance deserves.

The publisher is the editorial team of Pyramids of Giza, based in Frankfurt am Main. The address, phone numbers, and email address are on the contact page; responsible for the content of this offer is Pyramids of Giza.

The reason for this offer is an observation that anyone searching in German for this place can make. There is a lot of material, and a large part of it copies from each other. Opening hours come from the previous year, prices from three different years, a museum that has long been closed is still listed, and the same wrong number travels from page to page because no one checks it.

This observation is not a criticism of individual providers, but a description of how content on the internet usually comes about: someone summarizes what they find, and what they find is in turn a summary. After two or three rounds, a claim appears in a hundred places without ever having been checked against a source. That is exactly why even simple questions about this place, such as opening hours, are answered inconsistently.

We do it differently, and this page explains exactly how. It describes not intentions, but working rules that we actually follow and by which you can measure us.

One Single Topic, Three Principles

The starting point is a decision that determines everything else: we cover a single topic.

This offer comprises around one hundred and eighty pages, each covering an aspect of the same place. There are no pages about Bali, no lists of the ten most beautiful beaches, and no articles that exist only because something is missing for a search term. If a topic does not belong to the Giza Plateau, it is not here.

From this follows the second principle: each page has a clearly defined task and states what it does not cover. At the end of each page and in its references, you will find where the adjacent question is addressed. This is not a convenience for us, but the prerequisite for ensuring that a piece of information appears in exactly one place and is maintained there, rather than being spread across the offer in five variations.

The third principle is the most uncomfortable: we prefer to write less than to assert something. Where a piece of information is not reliable, that is stated in the text. Where a number varies across sources, we give the range and the reason. And where we could not clarify something, it is left as a gap rather than filled with a plausible-sounding phrase.

Three Practical Examples

How this works in practice can be shown with three examples that are typical of the work on this topic.

The first concerns opening hours. Two official Egyptian documents give different times for the same site. We could pick one. Instead, we give both, say which is the more recent source, and point out that the ticket office closes before the site. The official overview remains the authoritative reference.

The second concerns safety. For travel advice, we use exclusively the travel and safety advice of the Federal Foreign Office and quote it verbatim, rather than summarizing it. For a topic where shortening has consequences, the exact wording is the only responsible form.

An intermediate step is part of this, which is rarely described: we technically check every page before publication. This includes checking whether every piece of information in the header of the page matches the text, whether the mentioned neighboring pages really exist, whether the evidence referenced in the text is present, and whether a page corresponds in scope and structure to what it claims to be. This does not replace reading, but it catches the kind of errors that are easiest to overlook when reading.

The third concerns mistakes we have made ourselves. In the course of the work, it turned out that we had incorrectly attributed a regulation about photo equipment: what we attributed to an official announcement is not there. We corrected the information at all affected points and marked in the text that it is a common observation of practice and not a regulation. That is how we deal with our own mistakes, and we consider it part of our performance rather than an embarrassment.

What This Offer Lives On

The question remains of what this offer lives on, and we answer it without beating around the bush.

On some pages you will find recommendations for tours, tickets, accommodations, and travel products. If you follow such a link and book there, the publisher may receive a commission. For you, the price does not change.

More important than this sentence is what follows from it for the selection, and for that we have fixed rules. A recommendation never depends on whether or how much commission a provider pays. An offer is only mentioned where it fits what is stated in the paragraph above; where there is no honest connection, there is also no offer. We only describe services that are actually included in the provider's offer, and we explicitly state what is not included. And at several points in this offer, we explicitly recommend not booking anything because the entrance fee is enough or because the free option is better.

Where a recommendation is given, we also say why this particular offer and not another. For guided tours, this means, for example: we select according to the characteristics that a page actually needs, i.e., duration, language, included entrance fee, or whether a tour by a female guide is possible. Only then does the rating situation decide. This order is the reason why different pages have different offers, even though it would be more convenient to name the same everywhere.

There are also providers with whom we fundamentally do not work. Likewise, we refrain from recommendations that bring commission but miss the need, such as a travel adapter for a country where German plugs fit anyway.

We Want to Hear About Mistakes

Finally, the part that matters most to us: we want to hear about mistakes.

This offer covers a place that is currently undergoing major changes. Since 2025, the site has been under construction, access and paths are changing, a museum in the neighborhood has opened, and regulations are being adjusted without always being publicly announced. Anyone who has just been there knows some things more reliably than any source we can check.

The same openness applies to the question of what is missing here. There are pieces of information we would like to give but cannot because they are not published anywhere: which burial chambers are open on a given day, how the barriers after the renovation run in detail, whether the vehicles on the site are step-free to board. Instead of filling such points with a probable answer, we name them as open. We consider this more honest and practically more useful, because a wrong answer is worse than none at all as soon as someone bases their trip on it.

So if you notice something that is wrong or no longer correct, write to us. This applies to opening hours as well as to a path that is closed, a price that has changed, or a piece of information that you found differently on site. The address is on the contact page.

We check every hint, change the affected point and, where necessary, all comparable points. Where a change is significant in content, we mark it in the text rather than correcting it silently. An offer about a place that changes is never finished, and we treat it accordingly.