• Thumbnail for Pyramid of Nyuserre
    The pyramid of Nyuserre (Egyptian: Mn-swt Nỉ-wsr-rꜥ, meaning "Enduring are the places of Nyuserre") is a mid-25th-century BC pyramid complex built for...
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    been his nephew and a son of Neferefre. Nyuserre was the most prolific builder of his dynasty, having built three pyramids for himself and his queens...
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  • Thumbnail for Egyptian pyramids
    Egyptian pyramids are ancient masonry structures located in Egypt. Sources cite at least 118 identified "Egyptian" pyramids. Approximately 80 pyramids were...
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    statistics of the pyramids listed in chronological order, when available. Egyptian pyramids Great Sphinx of Giza Lepsius list of pyramids List of Egyptian...
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  • Thumbnail for Pyramid of Neferirkare
    began under different rulers, all four of these monuments were completed during the reign of Nyuserre. The pyramid of Neferirkare is situated on the necropolis...
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  • Thumbnail for Pyramid of Djoser
    pyramid of Djoser, sometimes called the Step Pyramid of Djoser, is an archaeological site in the Saqqara necropolis, Egypt, northwest of the ruins of...
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  • Thumbnail for Great Pyramid of Giza
    The Great Pyramid of Giza is the largest Egyptian pyramid. It served as the tomb of pharaoh Khufu, who ruled during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom...
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  • Thumbnail for Bent Pyramid
    The Bent Pyramid is an ancient Egyptian pyramid located at the royal necropolis of Dahshur, approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) south of Cairo, built...
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  • Thumbnail for Pyramid of Khafre
    The pyramid of Khafre or of Chephren (Arabic: هرم خفرع, romanized: haram ḵafraʿ, IPA: [haram xafraʕ]) is the middle of the three Ancient Egyptian Pyramids...
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  • Thumbnail for Construction of the Egyptian pyramids
    The construction of the Egyptian pyramids can be explained with well-established scientific facts, however there are some aspects that are even today considered...
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  • Pyramid of Neferefre Pyramid of Neferirkare Pyramid of Nyuserre Pyramid of Sahure Sun temple of Nyuserre Sun temple of Userkaf Dahshur Bent Pyramid Black...
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    Meidum (redirect from Pyramid of Meidum)
    Mr(y)-Jtmw, lit. 'beloved of Atum', Ancient Greek: Μοι(ε)θυμις) is an archaeological site in Lower Egypt. It contains a large pyramid and several mudbrick...
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  • Thumbnail for Pyramid of Amenemhat III (Dahshur)
    during the late Middle Kingdom of Egypt (2055–1650 BC). It is one of the five remaining pyramids of the original eleven pyramids at Dahshur in Egypt. Originally...
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    Menhir of about 100 tons. Pyramid of Nyuserre Ini. 12 megalithic limestone beams 10 meters long weighing 90 tons each, forming the roof of burial chamber...
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    A pyramidion (plural: pyramidia) is the capstone of an Egyptian pyramid or the upper section of an obelisk. Speakers of the Ancient Egyptian language...
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  • buildings from the Egyptian Age of the Pyramids. The following are amongst the oldest known extant buildings on each of the major continents. The following...
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  • Thumbnail for Pyramid of Sahure
    to the Sahure, Neferirkare and Nyuserre pyramids. Perring was the first to enter the substructure of Sahure's pyramid in modern times. Five years later...
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  • Thumbnail for Pyramid of Menkaure
    The pyramid of Menkaure is the smallest of the three main pyramids of the Giza pyramid complex, located on the Giza Plateau in the southwestern outskirts...
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  • Thumbnail for Lepsius XXIV
    The Lepsius XXIV Pyramid is an Egyptian pyramid, which was probably built for a wife of King Nyuserre Ini. The largely destroyed 5th Dynasty structure...
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  • Thumbnail for Red Pyramid
    The Red Pyramid, also called the North Pyramid, is the largest of the pyramids located at the Dahshur necropolis in Cairo, Egypt. Named for the rusty reddish...
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    Djedkare Isesi (category Pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt)
    of the palace attendants who lived during Djedkare's reign. Neserkauhor was buried in mastaba C, south of Nyuserre's pyramid complex in the east of the...
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  • Thumbnail for Pyramid of Unas
    Fragments of the list have been discovered in the mortuary temples of the Fifth Dynasty rulers Sahure, Neferirkare Kakai, and Nyuserre. In Unas's pyramid, only...
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  • Thumbnail for Pyramid of Khendjer
    The pyramid of Khendjer was a pyramid built for the burial of the 13th dynasty pharaoh Khendjer, who ruled Egypt c. 1760 BC during the Second Intermediate...
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  • Thumbnail for Lepsius list of pyramids
    The Lepsius list of pyramids is a list of sixty-seven ancient Egyptian pyramids established in 1842–1843 by Karl Richard Lepsius (1810–1884), an Egyptologist...
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  • 1900. In the 1902/3 season he participated in the excavations of the pyramid of Nyuserre Ini under Ludwig Borchardt. He was employed in the German consulate...
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  • Thumbnail for Buried Pyramid
    The Buried Pyramid (also called the Pyramid of Sekhemkhet) is an unfinished step pyramid constructed c. 2645 BC for Sekhemkhet Djoserty. He was the second...
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  • Thumbnail for Pyramid of Ahmose
    The pyramid of Ahmose is a pyramid erected in the reign of the Ancient Egyptian king Ahmose I, ca. 1550-1525 BC, at Abydos in Upper Egypt. It was the last...
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  • Thumbnail for Pyramid of Neferefre
    during the reigns of Nyuserre and, possibly, Shepseskare. The valley temple, causeway and cult pyramid were not built. The pyramid's condition created...
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    The Pyramid Texts are the oldest ancient Egyptian funerary texts, dating to the late Old Kingdom. They are the earliest known corpus of ancient Egyptian...
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    Neferefre (category Pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt)
    his pyramid, hastily completed in the form of a mastaba by his second successor and presumably younger brother, pharaoh Nyuserre Ini. Fragments of his...
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