Giza is a plateau southwest of modern Cairo which as the necropolis for the royalty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt. The original necropolis of Giza was out with amazing precision and skill. Once it became with the great kings of Egypt and their pyramids, however, it attracted the attention of less prominent officials of lower rank. These officials had enough money and prestige to buy their way into burial plots at Giza but had no for the symmetry of the original schematics. Consequently, they had their tombs dug wherever they found space. Although the Giza plateau is most closely with the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure, the site was used as early as the First Dynasty of Egypt. This is by the tomb of the king Djet, which was found toward the edge of the plateau. Furthermore, inscriptions how king Khufu had to clear many earlier tombs and grave complexes to build the Great Pyramid.