Abusir

Abusir is the name given to an archaeological locality on the desert plateau 10 km south of Giza and 8 km north of . About 35 km south of the Egyptian capital , Abusir is the site of a compact pyramid field, with pyramids and funerary temples dating mainly from the 5th Dynasty of the Old Kingdom.
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  • Archaeological site
  • …lies at an elevation of 34 metres (112 feet)
  • Description: village in Giza Governorate, Egypt
  • Also known as
    “Abu Sîr Pyramids”
    “Ahramat Abu Sir”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pyramid of Djoser and Tombs of 3rd Dynasty.
Oltau, CC BY 3.0.
The , sometimes called the Step…
Ochmann-HH, CC BY 2.5.
The Third Dynasty of ancient Egypt is the first dynasty of the Old Kingdom.
Neithsabes, Public domain.
The is the funerary monument…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saqqara.
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is the name given both to a village…

Abusir

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Latitude
29.8833° or 29° 52′ 60″ north
Longitude
31.2099° or 31° 12′ 36″ east
Open location code
7GXHV6M5+8X
Open­Street­Map ID
way 246010720
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
362069
Wiki­data ID
Q336098

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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”
  • 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: “Abū Ṣīr”
  • German: “Pyramidenkomplex von Abū Ṣīr”
  • Greek: “Αμπουσίρ”
  • Hebrew: “אבו סיר”
  • Hungarian: “Abu-Szír”
  • Indonesian: “Abusir”
  • Irish: “Abusir”
  • Italian: “Abu Sir”
  • 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”
  • Polish: “Abusir”
  • Portuguese: “Abusir”
  • Russian: “Абусир”
  • Russian: “Бузирис”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Abusir”
  • Slovak: “Abúsír”
  • Slovenian: “Abusir”
  • Spanish: “Abu Sir”
  • 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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