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Hawara Tomb Shafts 6423EG07JHP Ancient Egyptian Hawara Pyramid Tomb Burial Shafts Faiyum Desert Photo, to the south of Cairo was the last pyramid built in the 12th Dynasty by the Pharaoh Amenemhet 111 of the later design using mudbrick core with limestone covering, now all missing. Most famous for the references to the Labyrinth; a comparison of its mortuary and temple complex to that at Knossos by Herodotus although little now remains new excavations are underway to determine what might still exist. This pyramid was built after the king’s first attempt at Dashur was abandoned owing to subsidence problems. This photograph shows some of the excavated tomb shafts near the pyramid some dating back to 3000BC and artifacts from these were once on show in the Karanis[Kom Aushim] Museum, now closed. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Faiyum, Hawara, pyramid, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, antiquity, tomb, shafts, death, burial, early, excavated, deep, sand, desert, landscape
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Hawara Tomb Shafts 6423EG07JHP
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Ancient Egyptian Hawara Pyramid Tomb Burial Shafts Faiyum Desert Photo,

to the south of Cairo was the last pyramid built in the 12th Dynasty by the Pharaoh Amenemhet 111 of the later design using mudbrick core with limestone covering, now all missing. Most famous for the references to the Labyrinth; a comparison of its mortuary and temple complex to that at Knossos by Herodotus although little now remains new excavations are underway to determine what might still exist. This pyramid was built after the king’s first attempt at Dashur was abandoned owing to subsidence problems. This photograph shows some of the excavated tomb shafts near the pyramid some dating back to 3000BC and artifacts from these were once on show in the Karanis[Kom Aushim] Museum, now closed.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Faiyum, Hawara, pyramid, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, antiquity, tomb, shafts, death, burial, early, excavated, deep, sand, desert, landscape