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Pyramid of Sesostris I
location el-Lisht Built upon a star-shaped skeletal structure of limestone
location el-Lisht
Built upon a star-shaped skeletal structure of limestone
Pyramid of Amenemhat III
location: Dahshur Core of brick with a limestone facing. It holds numerous antechambers and side rooms. Due to problems with settling the pyramid was used for queens and princesses - not for the king
location: Dahshur
Core of brick with a limestone facing. It holds numerous antechambers and side rooms.
Due to problems with settling the pyramid was used for queens and princesses - not for the king
Pyramid of Sesostris III
location: Dahshur Earliest example of a pyramid built completely from mud brick, but faced with limestone. A hidden entrance leads to a burial chamber which held a stone sarcophagus.
Earliest example of a pyramid built completely from mud brick, but faced with limestone.
A hidden entrance leads to a burial chamber which held a stone sarcophagus.
location: Hawara Limestone faced, and stood in such a extensive complex of chapels and courts that the Greeks compared it to the labyrinth of Knossos. Sadly little remains of the decorations, columns, sculptures and reliefs once known to have existed.
location: Hawara
Limestone faced, and stood in such a extensive complex of chapels and courts that the Greeks compared it to the labyrinth of Knossos.
Sadly little remains of the decorations, columns, sculptures and reliefs once known to have existed.
