What did the Arabs call the Egyptian pyramids?
   Laila, Web Post

Dr. dig responds:
Modern Egyptians call the pyramids el ahram. Melton, an English traveler, writing in 1661, tells us that "I visited the pyramids, called by the Arabs 'the Mountains of Pharaoh.'" Interestingly, the medieval Arabs did, and some still do today, refer to the Great Sphinx of Giza as abu el hol’or "Father of Terror."