Northern Mazghuna pyramid
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Southern Mazghuna pyramid and Bent 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. Southern Mazghuna pyramid is situated 650 metres south of Northern Mazghuna pyramid.
Bent Pyramid
Photo: Jorge Láscar, CC BY 2.0.
The Bent Pyramid is an ancient Egyptian pyramid located at the royal necropolis of Dahshur, approximately 40 kilometres south of Cairo, built under the Old Kingdom Pharaoh Sneferu. Bent Pyramid is situated 3 km northwest of Northern Mazghuna pyramid.
Pyramid of Ameny Qemau
Tomb
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The pyramid of Ameny Qemau is an ancient Egyptian pyramid located in southern Dahshur. It was constructed for Ameny Qemau, an obscure king of the 13th Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period. Pyramid of Ameny Qemau is situated 1½ km north of Northern Mazghuna pyramid.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dahshur and Saqqara.
Dahshur
Photo: Pentaur, Public domain.
Dahshur is an Egyptian archaeological locality some 10 km to the south of Saqqara and therefore 35 km south of the Egyptian capital Cairo.
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.
Northern Mazghuna pyramid
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: building in Africa
- Categories: smooth-sided pyramid, Egyptian pyramids, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Giza Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
29.7675° or 29° 46′ 3″ northLongitude
31.22083° or 31° 13′ 15″ eastOpen location code
7GXHQ68C+X8OpenStreetMap ID
node 4883991790OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q2006734
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Northern Mazghuna pyramid” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Հյուսիսային Մազղունայի բուրգ”
- Catalan: “Piràmide nord de Mazghuna”
- French: “Pyramide nord de mazghouna”
- French: “Pyramide nord de Mazghouna”
- German: “Nördliche Pyramide von Masghuna”
- Macedonian: “Северна мазгунска пирамида”
- Polish: “Północna piramida w Mazghunie”
- Russian: “пирамида Северная Мазгуна”
- Russian: “Северная пирамида в Мазгуне”
- Slovak: “Lepsius LIX”
- Slovak: “Pyramída Neferusobek”
- Slovak: “Severná pyramída v Mazghúne”
- Slovenian: “Severna mazgunska piramida”
- Vietnamese: “Kim tự tháp Bắc Mazghuna”
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