It's too bad there's no feed from the surveillance cameras inside the Great Pyramid...

...although such images (obviously) wouldn't be able to convey the scale and the feeling of being inside that structure.

As I wrote to people after my ascent into what's called the burial chamber, "it was equal parts Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Exorcist." This is because you' have to walk along this long, dusty/musty, steep, narrow and dimly lit flight of stairs in the Grand Gallery for 100-some yards to get to the chamber... and then you have to squat down or even go on all fours to pass through the small, square opening into the room. I just felt as if I was going to encounter something once I looked around that corner.

The photos that you can find online don't represent the space well, since they are all lit by electronic flash.* This room is dark... and then, as my Lady Friend mentioned, it dawns on you that you're in the middle of this ancient, tightly engineered, granite behemoth. You'd forget that you were still in proximity to Cairo and all of its millions of lives.

* Which reminds me: I don't know when it was that people took these photos, because the site staff at the pyramid's entrance ask you give up any kind of photographic device you might have. I even got a little pat-down because one of the men thought my light meter was a camera. Of course, folks do manage to get camera phones up there, for whatever use those might be.