Image Hawara Pyramid 6414EG07JHP by Jim Henderson

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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 6414EG07JHP Hawara Pyramid Mudbrick North Face Fallen Statue Torso Carved Royalty 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. In the foreground is a forlorn reminder of what was once a beautiful limestone carved figure that probably adorned one of the adjacent Necropolis chapels and temples. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Hawara, pyramid, north, face, el-Fayoum, Faiyum, Fayyum, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, antiquity, upright, bricks, mudbrick, broken, statue, pharaoh, Amenemhet, Amenemhat 111, burial, afterlife, sand
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Outlying Pyramids
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Hawara Pyramid 6414EG07JHP
Upload Date: 2007-10-24 07:02:28
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Hawara Pyramid Mudbrick North Face Fallen Statue Torso Carved Royalty

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. In the foreground is a forlorn reminder of what was once a beautiful limestone carved figure that probably adorned one of the adjacent Necropolis chapels and temples.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Hawara, pyramid, north, face, el-Fayoum, Faiyum, Fayyum, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, antiquity, upright, bricks, mudbrick, broken, statue, pharaoh, Amenemhet, Amenemhat 111, burial, afterlife, sand