What we will be talking about in this video are the Caffrey and Min Quarry pyramids' casing stones, which are set to the southwest of the Great Pyramid.

These pyramids are often overlooked in favor of their larger sibling, but they do deserve more retention. They are particularly unusual because, in contrast to the Great Pyramid, both had granite casing stones, at least in part. The Caffrey pyramid had granite casing for its lowermost course around the bottom up to a height of 41 inches or just over a meter.

How advice said two courses would double the height of the grenades around the base, but this is unconfirmed. We can see surviving examples of the granite casing on the south side of the pyramid. The rest of the structure was cased in Makkah team limestone, a different quality to that used on the Great Pyramid being harder and grayer and less spectacular in appearance. The smaller men quarry pyramid was also poor cased in Granite Diodorus Siculus stated that this pyramid had 15 courses of the harder pink stone whilst Flinders Petrie thought there were 16 This means it covered a quarter of the height of the pyramid.