Star of sunlight beams falling on the edge of the pyramid of Menkaure with the he Queens Pyramids of Menkaure in the back. The Pyramid of Menkaure is the smallest of the three main Pyramids of Giza, located on the Giza Plateau in the southwestern outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. It is thought to have been built to serve as the tomb of the fourth dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Menkaure.