Abusir
Abusir is the name given to an Egyptian archaeological locality on the desert plateau 10 km south of Giza and 8 km north of Saqqara. About 35 km south of the Egyptian capital Cairo, Abusir is the site of a compact pyramid field, with pyramids and funerary temples dating mainly from the 5th Dynasty of the Old Kingdom.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: village in Giza Governorate, Egypt
- Also known as: “Abu Sîr Pyramids”, “Abusîr”, and “Ahramat Abu Sir”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pyramid of Djoser and Tombs of 3rd Dynasty.
Pyramid of Djoser
The Pyramid of Djoser, sometimes called the Step Pyramid of Djoser or Step Pyramid of Horus Netjerikhet, is an archaeological site in the Saqqara necropolis, Egypt, northwest of the ruins of Memphis.
Tombs of 3rd Dynasty
Pyramid of Neferirkare
Photo: Neithsabes, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saqqara.
Saqqara
Saqqara is the name given both to a village 32 km to the south of the Egyptian capital of Cairo and to the extensive ancient necropolis on the plateau above the Nile Valley, the location of tombs and pyramids dating to the Predynastic, Old Kingdom, New Kingdom and Late Periods of ancient Egyptian history.
Abusir
- Categories: necropolis, village, village in Egypt, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Giza Governorate, Lower Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
29.8833° or 29° 52′ 60″ north
Longitude
31.2099° or 31° 12′ 36″ east
Elevation
34 metres (112 feet)
Open location code
7GXHV6M5+8X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Abusir” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Aboesir”
- Arabic: “أبو صير، الجيزة”
- Arabic: “أبو صير”
- Basque: “Abusir”
- Breton: “Abousir”
- Catalan: “Abusir al Melek”
- Catalan: “Abusir al-Melek”
- Catalan: “Abusir”
- Cebuano: “Ahrāmāt Abū Şīr”
- Chinese: “阿布希爾”
- Chinese: “阿布西尔”
- Chinese: “阿西尔”
- Croatian: “Abusir”
- Czech: “Abúsír”
- Dutch: “Aboesir”
- Dutch: “Abusir”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ابو صير”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوصير”
- Esperanto: “Abusir”
- Finnish: “Abusir”
- Finnish: “Abusirin pyramidit”
- Finnish: “Busiris”
- French: “Abousir”
- Georgian: “აბუსირი”
- German: “Abousir”
- German: “Abu Sir”
- German: “Abū Şīr”
- German: “Abū Ṣīr”
- German: “Abusir”
- German: “Pyramidenkomplex von Abū Ṣīr”
- Greek: “Αμπουσίρ”
- Hebrew: “אבו סיר”
- Hungarian: “Abu-Szír”
- Indonesian: “Abusir”
- Irish: “Abusir”
- Italian: “Abu Sir”
- Italian: “Abusir”
- Japanese: “アブ・シール”
- Japanese: “アブシール”
- Kirghiz: “Абусир”
- Korean: “아부시르”
- Lithuanian: “Abusiras”
- Macedonian: “Абусир”
- Malay: “Abusir”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Abusir”
- Norwegian: “Abusir”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Per Osir”
- Persian: “ابو صیر”
- Persian: “ابوصیر”
- Polish: “Abusir”
- Portuguese: “Abusir”
- Russian: “Абусир”
- Russian: “Бузирис”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Abusir”
- Slovak: “Abúsír”
- Slovenian: “Abusir”
- Spanish: “Abu sir”
- Spanish: “Abu Sir”
- Spanish: “Abusir”
- Spanish: “Busiris (Egipto Medio)”
- Swedish: “Abusir”
- Tamil: “அபுசிர்”
- Turkish: “Abusir”
- Ukrainian: “Абусір-ель-Мелек”
- Ukrainian: “Абусір”
- Urdu: “ابو صیر (بدرشین)”
- Urdu: “ابو صیر”
- Vietnamese: “Abusir”
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