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Pictures of pyramids and scenery related to them outwith the main sites of Giza and Saqqara such as Abusir, Dashur, El Lisht, Meydum and Hawara
Abu Ghurab & Desert EG02AA33jhp Egypt Abu Ghurab Sun Temple Niuserre wall enclosure south desert isolated location south of Giza, about 25km from Cairo and situated on the desert escarpment after travelling through rural roads and walking in agricultural land and then the sand. Originally thought to be a pyramid, called Riga but now known to be the Sun-Temple of Nyusere c2453-2422 built on an east-west access and although a very elaborate miniature pyramid complex is now very ruined and is thought to be the only one of six standing that were built in the area. Large alabaster bowls of considerable beauty remain from the slaughterhouse where animals would have been sacrificed for the Heb Sed and in similar stone, a huge four-sided Hetep Altar stone remains intact in front of the base of where a large Solar Obelisk would have stood. 2km away is the site of Abusir whose remaining pyramids can be seen across the desert to the south. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Cairo, Giza, Abu Ghurab, Abu Ghurob, pyramid, Sun-Temple, Nyuserre, Niuserre, Riga, Solar, Obelisk, Benben, alabaster, altar, Hetep, four-sided, ruined, collapsed, God, Re, Heliopolis, River, Nile, Abu Sir, landscape, wall, enclosure, southwards, south, sand, agriculture, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, soft, erosion, limestone, deity, horizon, causeway, buried, pharaoh, royal, tombs, blocks, purification, ceremonial, sacrifice, slaughterhouse, bulls, blood, bowls, channels, drainage, afterlife, travelling, celestial, religion, beliefs, death, burial, gigantic, history, desert, hazy, light, 2002, Fuji, S2, DSLR, digital
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Outlying Pyramids
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Abu Ghurab & Desert EG02AA33jhp
Upload Date: 2002-10-20 08:12:33
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Egypt Abu Ghurab Sun Temple Niuserre wall enclosure south desert

isolated location south of Giza, about 25km from Cairo and situated on the desert escarpment after travelling through rural roads and walking in agricultural land and then the sand. Originally thought to be a pyramid, called Riga but now known to be the Sun-Temple of Nyusere c2453-2422 built on an east-west access and although a very elaborate miniature pyramid complex is now very ruined and is thought to be the only one of six standing that were built in the area. Large alabaster bowls of considerable beauty remain from the slaughterhouse where animals would have been sacrificed for the Heb Sed and in similar stone, a huge four-sided Hetep Altar stone remains intact in front of the base of where a large Solar Obelisk would have stood. 2km away is the site of Abusir whose remaining pyramids can be seen across the desert to the south.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Cairo, Giza, Abu Ghurab, Abu Ghurob, pyramid, Sun-Temple, Nyuserre, Niuserre, Riga, Solar, Obelisk, Benben, alabaster, altar, Hetep, four-sided, ruined, collapsed, God, Re, Heliopolis, River, Nile, Abu Sir, landscape, wall, enclosure, southwards, south, sand, agriculture, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, soft, erosion, limestone, deity, horizon, causeway, buried, pharaoh, royal, tombs, blocks, purification, ceremonial, sacrifice, slaughterhouse, bulls, blood, bowls, channels, drainage, afterlife, travelling, celestial, religion, beliefs, death, burial, gigantic, history, desert, hazy, light, 2002, Fuji, S2, DSLR, digital