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
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 1½ km west of Black 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.
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 1 km south of Black 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.
Mit Rahinah
Village
Photo: EliziR, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mit Rahinah is a village, which is situated 7 km northeast of Black Pyramid.
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″ northLongitude
31.22391° or 31° 13′ 26″ eastOpen location code
7GXHQ6RF+MHOpenStreetMap ID
way 39918837OpenStreetMap feature
historic=tombWikidata ID
Q284794
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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”
- Vietnamese: “Kim tự tháp Đen”
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