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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 Wild Dog 6401EG07JHP 
 Ancient Egypt Fayyum Hawara Pyramid North East Face View Necropolis Wild Dog appears scavenging amongst the ruins adjacent to the Necropolis, a collection of tombs and temples of nobles associated with royalty. The site is near Faiyum, 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, north, face, Necropolis, wild dog, animal, scavenging, el-Fayoum, Faiyum, Fayyum, Egyptology, archaeology, desert, sand, tombs, ruins, covered
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Outlying Pyramids
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Hawara Pyramid Wild Dog 6401EG07JHP
Upload Date: 2007-10-24 06:55:19
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Ancient Egypt Fayyum Hawara Pyramid North East Face View Necropolis

Wild Dog appears scavenging amongst the ruins adjacent to the Necropolis, a collection of tombs and temples of nobles associated with royalty. The site is near Faiyum, 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, north, face, Necropolis, wild dog, animal, scavenging, el-Fayoum, Faiyum, Fayyum, Egyptology, archaeology, desert, sand, tombs, ruins, covered