Dahshur pyramids

When you original get to Dahshur, you may be forgiving for not paying much concentration to the weird and wonderful looking hill or heap of rubble shown below. In fact, on the other hand, this is the so-called Black Pyramid of pharaoh Amenemhat III who ruled from 1855-1808 BC for the duration of the Middle Kingdom period. Even though it might look like a sum wreck, the Black Pyramid is one of no more than three of the unique eleven pyramids at Dahshur, which are still standing, and the center passageways, and chamber of the Black Pyramid are approximately entirely intact.

The backdrop of date palms on the deluge plain of the Nile tells part of the cause why this pyramid collapsed - it's merely ten meter above sea level, and build on an unbalanced foundation of hard clay. An additional cause is the structure materials used - first and foremost mud brick and, not together from its external covering, there was distant less stonework in its structure than most other pyramids. It's contemplation that this was the first pyramid with burial chamber built to house both a pharoah and his queens. The bones of both queen Aat and his subsequent consort, who might have been Neferuptah, were bring into being in their burial chambers - however, regardless of the attendance of a sarcophagus in the king's burial chamber, it seem that he was buried at an additional pyramid he built, at Hawara.