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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
Bent Pyramid Dashur eg961311jhp Egypt Dahshur Bent Pyramid Snefru side Black limestone cladding desert high view near entrance on west side is a famous and very distinct shape with a reduced slope created mid way up, possibly because of the need to complete the construction earlier than expected or its was structurally unsound. It is the most complete pyramid with most of its Tura limestone cladding intact, although some corners and near the top have been plundered but offer a good indicator of how the Giza pyramids would have looked when completed. Near the pyramid on its south side is a subsidiary one, badly degraded, which was found to have not been used and is felt to be too small for the King’s Queen Hetepheres. When I visited the site in 1995, the same year the military allowed tourist visits, the north entrance, there are two, was reached by climbing up the outside of the structure assisted by the helpful guide but I was unable to reach the burial chamber as I did not trust the rope ladder available. Nearby are several other pyramids of which the North or Red Pyramid also of Sneferu [Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty c2613-2494BC] is the older, largest and most intact. The others of much poorer quality are from the Middle Kingdom 12th Dynasty some 600 years later. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Dashur, Dahshur, desert, escarpment, Bent, Rhomboidal, Pyramid, South, shining, complex, necropolis, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, architecture, construction, sloping, change, angle, unstable, premature, completion, unexplained, history, king, pharaoh, royal, tombs, death, burial, afterlife, Saqqara, Snefru, Sneferu, Snofru, corbelled, necropolis, Middle, Kingdom, Amenemhet 111, mudbrick, black, Senwosret 111, Saqqara, Saqqarah, 4th Dynasty, Perring, Vyse, Fakhry, de Morgan, Amenemhat, Senusert, red, granite, sarcophagus, Turah, Tura, limestone, casing, mortuary, east, side, subsidiary, Hussein, empty, temple, entry, north, face, chamber, corbelled, 645, transparency, film, Fuji, RDP2, 100asa, colour, scanned, scan, Bronica, ETRSi, medium, wide angle, 40mm f4
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Bent Pyramid Dashur eg961311jhp
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Egypt Dahshur Bent Pyramid Snefru side Black limestone cladding desert

high view near entrance on west side is a famous and very distinct shape with a reduced slope created mid way up, possibly because of the need to complete the construction earlier than expected or its was structurally unsound. It is the most complete pyramid with most of its Tura limestone cladding intact, although some corners and near the top have been plundered but offer a good indicator of how the Giza pyramids would have looked when completed. Near the pyramid on its south side is a subsidiary one, badly degraded, which was found to have not been used and is felt to be too small for the King’s Queen Hetepheres. When I visited the site in 1995, the same year the military allowed tourist visits, the north entrance, there are two, was reached by climbing up the outside of the structure assisted by the helpful guide but I was unable to reach the burial chamber as I did not trust the rope ladder available. Nearby are several other pyramids of which the North or Red Pyramid also of Sneferu [Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty c2613-2494BC] is the older, largest and most intact. The others of much poorer quality are from the Middle Kingdom 12th Dynasty some 600 years later.
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