Dahshur
Dahshur is an Egyptian archaeological locality some 10 km to the south of Saqqara and therefore 35 km south of the Egyptian capital Cairo.Photo: Maveric149, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Pentaur, Public domain.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Giza Governorate, Egypt
- Also known as: “Dahshūr”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Southern Mazghuna pyramid and Northern Mazghuna pyramid.
Southern Mazghuna pyramid
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Southern Mazghuna Pyramid is an ancient Egyptian royal tomb which was built during the 12th or the 13th Dynasty in Mazghuna, 5 km south of Dahshur, Egypt.
Northern Mazghuna pyramid
Archaeological site
The Northern Mazghuna Pyramid is an ancient Egyptian royal tomb which was built during the 12th or 13th Dynasty in Mazghuna, 5 km south of Dahshur. The building remained unfinished, and it is still unknown which pharaoh was really intended to be buried here since no appropriate inscription has been found.
Dahshur
- Categories: necropolis, archaeological site, administrative territorial entity, village in Egypt, and locality
- Location: Giza Governorate, Lower Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.7513° or 29° 45′ 5″ northLongitude
31.2408° or 31° 14′ 27″ eastElevation
23 metres (75 feet)Open location code
7GXHQ62R+G8OpenStreetMap ID
node 331876352OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Dahshur” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Dahshur”
- Afrikaans: “Dahsjoer”
- Arabic: “دهشور، الجيزة”
- Arabic: “دهشور،”
- Arabic: “دهشور”
- Asturian: “Dahshur”
- Basque: “Dahshur”
- Basque: “Dahsur”
- Bengali: “দাহশুর”
- Burmese: “ဒါရှာ”
- Catalan: “Dahshur”
- Catalan: “Dashur”
- Catalan: “Piràmide de Dashur”
- Catalan: “Piràmide de Senusret III”
- Catalan: “Piràmides de Dashur”
- Catalan: “Tahsur”
- Catalan: “Takkuris”
- Catalan: “Uenet Snefru”
- Chinese: “代赫舒尔”
- Chinese: “代赫舒爾”
- Chinese: “达哈淑尔”
- Chinese: “达夏尔”
- Chinese: “达淑尔”
- Chinese: “达舒尔”
- Croatian: “Dahšur”
- Croatian: “Dashur”
- Croatian: “Dašur”
- Czech: “Dáhšúr”
- Dutch: “Dahshur”
- Dutch: “Dahsjoer”
- Dutch: “Dashur”
- Dutch: “Dasjoer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دهشور”
- Esperanto: “Dahŝuro”
- Finnish: “Dahshur”
- French: “Dahchour”
- French: “Daschour”
- French: “Dashour”
- French: “Dhashur”
- Galician: “Dahshur”
- German: “Dahschur”
- German: “Pyramidenkomplex von Dahschūr”
- Greek: “Ντασούρ”
- Greek: “Νταχσούρ”
- Hausa: “Dahshur”
- Hebrew: “דהשור”
- Hebrew: “דחשור”
- Hungarian: “Dahsúr”
- Indonesian: “Dahshur”
- Italian: “Dahshur”
- Japanese: “ダハシュール”
- Korean: “다흐슈르”
- Lithuanian: “Dahšuras”
- Lithuanian: “Dahšūras”
- Malay: “Dahsyur”
- Malayalam: “ദാഹ്ഷുർ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dahshur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dashur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zawyet Dahshur”
- Norwegian: “Dahshur”
- Persian: “دهشور”
- Polish: “Dahszur”
- Portuguese: “Dachur”
- Portuguese: “Dahchur”
- Portuguese: “Dahshur”
- Russian: “Дахшур”
- Russian: “Дашур”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dahšur”
- Slovak: “Dahšúr”
- Slovenian: “Dahšur”
- Spanish: “Dahshur”
- Spanish: “Dashur”
- Swedish: “Dahshur”
- Swedish: “Daschur”
- Swedish: “Dashur”
- Tamil: “தச்சூர் (பண்டைய நகரம்)”
- Tamil: “தச்சூர்”
- Thai: “ดาห์ชูร์”
- Turkish: “Dahshur”
- Turkish: “Dahşur”
- Ukrainian: “Дахшур”
- Ukrainian: “Дашур”
- Urdu: “دہشور”
- Vietnamese: “Dahshur”
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