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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- 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
The Third Dynasty of ancient Egypt is the first dynasty of the Old Kingdom. Other dynasties of the Old Kingdom include the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth. The capital during the period of the Old Kingdom was at Memphis.Pyramid of Neferirkare
Photo: Neithsabes, Public domain.
The pyramid of Neferirkare is the funerary monument built for the Egyptian pharaoh Neferirkare Kakai of the Fifth Dynasty in the 25th century BC. It is the tallest, highest-situated structure in the Abusir necropolis – located between Giza and Saqqara – over which it still towers.
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″ northLongitude
31.2099° or 31° 12′ 36″ eastElevation
34 metres (112 feet)Open location code
7GXHV6M5+8XOpenStreetMap ID
way 246010720OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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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”
- Ukrainian: “Абусір-ель-Мелек”
- Ukrainian: “Абусір”
- Vietnamese: “Abusir”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Abusir”. Photo: Kurohito, CC BY-SA 3.0.