Black Pyramid
The Black Pyramid was built by King Amenemhat III during the late Middle Kingdom of Egypt. It is one of the five remaining pyramids of the original 11 pyramids at Dahshur in Egypt.
Photo: Wikimedia, Copyrighted free use.- Type: Tomb
- Description: smooth-sided pyramid; The Black Pyramid was built by King Amenemhat III during the Middle Kingdom of Egypt. It is one of the five remaining pyramids of the original eleven pyramids at Dahshur in Egypt.
- Also known as: “Pyramid of Amenemhat III”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bent Pyramid and White Pyramid.
Bent Pyramid
White Pyramid
Ruins
The White Pyramid of Amenemhat II is located in the pyramid field at Dahshur, Egypt, and is now nothing more than a pile of rubble, having been heavily quarried for stone. White Pyramid is situated 1½ km north of Black Pyramid.
Pyramid of Ameny Qemau
Tomb
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dahshur and Saqqara.
Dahshur
Photo: Pentaur, Public domain.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.
Black Pyramid
- Categories: smooth-sided pyramid, archaeological site, Egyptian pyramids, historic site, and burial
- Location: Giza Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
29.79174° or 29° 47′ 30″ north
Longitude
31.22391° or 31° 13′ 26″ east
Open location code
7GXHQ6RF+MH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=tomb
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Black Pyramid” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الهرم الأسود”
- Arabic: “هرم أسود”
- Azerbaijani: “III Amenemhet ehramı”
- Catalan: “Piràmide d’Amenemhet III a Dashur”
- Catalan: “piràmide negra”
- Catalan: “Piràmide negra”
- Chinese: “黑金字塔”
- Dutch: “Pyramid of Amenemhat III”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الهرم الاسود”
- Esperanto: “la nigra piramido”
- Esperanto: “piramido de Amenemhet la 3-a”
- Finnish: “Musta pyramidi”
- French: “pyramide d’Amenemhat III”
- French: “Pyramide d’Amenemhat III”
- German: “Amenemhet III.-Pyramide”
- German: “Amenemhet-III.-Pyramide”
- Greek: “Μαύρη Πυραμίδα”
- Greek: “Πυραμίδα του Αμενεμχέτ Γ‘”
- Greek: “Πυραμίδα του Αμενεμχέτ Γ’”
- Hebrew: “הפירמידה השחורה”
- Italian: “Complesso piramidale di Amenemhat III”
- Italian: “Piramide di Amenemhat III”
- Italian: “Piramide Nera”
- Japanese: “黒ピラミッド”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Den svarte pyramide”
- Norwegian: “Den svarte pyramide”
- Polish: “Piramida Czarna”
- Portuguese: “Pirâmide Negra”
- Russian: “Чёрная пирамида (Египет)”
- Russian: “Чёрная пирамида”
- Slovak: “Čierna pyramída”
- Slovak: “Lepsius LVIII”
- Slovak: “Pyramída Amenemheta III. v Dahšúre”
- Slovenian: “Črna piramida”
- Spanish: “Piramide Negra”
- Spanish: “Pirámide Negra”
- Swedish: “Svarta pyramiden”
- Tamil: “கருப்பு பிரமிடு”
- Turkish: “Amenemhet III Piramidi”
- Ukrainian: “Чорна піраміда”
- Urdu: “سیاہ ہرم”
- Vietnamese: “Kim tự tháp Đen”
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