Southern Mazghuna pyramid
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.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Northern Mazghuna pyramid and Bent Pyramid.
Northern Mazghuna pyramid
Archaeological site
The northern Mazghuna pyramid is the funerary monument built for an undetermined Egyptian pharaoh of the 12th or 13th Dynasty in Mazghuna, 5 km south of Dahshur. Northern Mazghuna pyramid is situated 650 metres north of Southern 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 3½ km north of Southern 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 2 km north of Southern 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. Travellers from Cairo will often combine a visit to Dahshur with a visit to Saqqara on the same day.
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.
Southern Mazghuna pyramid
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: building in Egypt
- Categories: smooth-sided pyramid, unfinished building, Egyptian pyramids, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Giza Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
29.76167° or 29° 45′ 42″ northLongitude
31.22083° or 31° 13′ 15″ eastOpen location code
7GXHQ66C+M8OpenStreetMap ID
node 4883999605OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q2381000
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In Other Languages
From Egyptian Arabic to Vietnamese—“Southern Mazghuna pyramid” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “هرم مزغونه الجنوبى”
- French: “Pyramide sud de mazghouna”
- French: “Pyramide sud de Mazghouna”
- German: “Südliche Pyramide von Masghuna”
- Macedonian: “Јужна мазгунска пирамида”
- Polish: “Południowa piramida w Mazghunie”
- Russian: “пирамида Южная Мажгуна”
- Slovak: “Južná pyramída v Mazghúne”
- Slovak: “Pyramída Amenemheta IV.”
- Slovenian: “Južna mazgunska piramida”
- Turkish: “Mazghuna Güney Piramidi”
- Vietnamese: “Kim tự tháp Nam Mazghuna”
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