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Pictures of pyramids and scenery related to them outwith the main sites of Giza and Saqqara such as Abusir, Dashur, El Lisht, Meydum and Hawara
Hawara Pyramid Entrance 6391EG07JHP Ancient Egyptian Hawara Pyramid South Face Entrance Door Blocks Rubble is located near Fayyum, to the south of Cairo, was the last pyramid built in the 12th Dynasty by the Pharaoh Amenemhet 111 of the later design using mudbrick core with limestone covering, now all missing. Most famous for the references to the Labyrinth; a comparison of its mortuary and temple complex to that at Knossos by Herodotus although little now remains new excavations are underway to determine what might still exist. This pyramid was built after the king’s first attempt at Dashur was abandoned owing to subsidence problems. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Hawara, pyramid, el-Fayoum, Faiyum, Fayyum, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, antiquity, upright, south, face, entrance, passage, bricks, mudbrick, limestone, blocks, pharaoh, Amenemhet, Amenemhat 111, royal, tomb, shafts, death, burial, afterlife
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Collection: Outlying Pyramids
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Hawara Pyramid Entrance 6391EG07JHP
Upload Date: 2007-10-24 06:45:36
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Ancient Egyptian Hawara Pyramid South Face Entrance Door Blocks Rubble

is located near Fayyum, to the south of Cairo, was the last pyramid built in the 12th Dynasty by the Pharaoh Amenemhet 111 of the later design using mudbrick core with limestone covering, now all missing. Most famous for the references to the Labyrinth; a comparison of its mortuary and temple complex to that at Knossos by Herodotus although little now remains new excavations are underway to determine what might still exist. This pyramid was built after the king’s first attempt at Dashur was abandoned owing to subsidence problems.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Hawara, pyramid, el-Fayoum, Faiyum, Fayyum, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, antiquity, upright, south, face, entrance, passage, bricks, mudbrick, limestone, blocks, pharaoh, Amenemhet, Amenemhat 111, royal, tomb, shafts, death, burial, afterlife