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Dahshur

Article Series Egyptian Sites

Places

Prefectures / cities
Monuments / Temples

Region

Lower Egypt / Middle Egypt
Upper Egypt / Nubia

Location

Dahshur

29 58 '34 "North
31 07 '49 "East / 29.97611, 31.13028

View of the Red Pyramid Contact 29 58 '33.8 "North
31 07 '49.5 "East / 29.976056, 31.130417 Country

Egypt Type Cultural Criteria i, iii, vi Number
Identification 86 Region Africa ** Year Registration 1979 ^(3rdSession )

* Name UNESCO
** UNESCO Geographical Classification change

Dahshur is a site of ancient Egypt , about fifteen miles of Saqqara , where the royal necropolis of the ^Fourth and ^Twelfth Dynasties. Military zone during the years he has been open to the public in 1996.

Experts estimate that the two pyramids of the reign of Snefru are the first true pyramids, intermediate steps between those of Djoser and Cheops :

The first draft Meydum was probably abandoned Snefru therefore chose this site to build its last two pyramids : the rhomboid pyramid ^Note

(en) The rhomboid pyramid

Ancient Egypt
Portal History ( C ) Geography ( C ) Mythology ( C ) Gods ( C ) Art ( C ) / Pyramid ( C ) Science ( C ) Everyday life ( C ) / Political Organization / Pharaohs

World Heritage in Egypt
Cultural	Abu Mena (1979) Historic Cairo (1979) Memphis and its Necropolis - the areas of the pyramids of Giza to Dahshur (1979) Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae (1979) ancient Thebes and its Necropolis (1979 ) Saint Catherine Area (2002)
Natural	Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley) (2005)
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