The menkura pyramid in its entirety It is said that the Egyptian pharaoh Mankura constructed the third pyramid at Giza around 4000 years ago. Although it is the smallest of the great pyramids at Giza, it is by no means the least interesting. The pyramid's beginnings, on the other hand, are similar to those of a great number of other enormous and masterfully carved monuments and statues located all around the Giza plateau. Nobody seems to be able to explain how or why certain historical personalities who are well-known and have been thoroughly researched were able to accomplish such remarkable things. Our copper-welding ancestors would have had a difficult time constructing this structure some four thousand years ago.