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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
Hawara Pyramid Falcons 6404EG07JHP Hawara Pyramid Fayyum Egypt Mudbrick North Aspect Erosion Weathered Falcons Nesting looking at the area the mortuary chapel was located, near Faiyum, 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. Note also the falcons flying at the top of the pyramid where they are possibly nesting as climbing up the structure is forbidden. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Hawara, pyramid, el-Fayoum, Faiyum, Fayyum, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, antiquity, upright, north, face, mortuary, chapel, birds, falcons, flying, Horus, bricks, mudbricks, pharaoh, Amenemhet, Amenemhat 111, royal, tomb, death, burial, afterlife
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Outlying Pyramids
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Hawara Pyramid Falcons 6404EG07JHP
Upload Date: 2007-10-24 06:56:05
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Hawara Pyramid Fayyum Egypt Mudbrick North Aspect Erosion Weathered Falcons

Nesting looking at the area the mortuary chapel was located, near Faiyum, 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. Note also the falcons flying at the top of the pyramid where they are possibly nesting as climbing up the structure is forbidden.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Hawara, pyramid, el-Fayoum, Faiyum, Fayyum, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, antiquity, upright, north, face, mortuary, chapel, birds, falcons, flying, Horus, bricks, mudbricks, pharaoh, Amenemhet, Amenemhat 111, royal, tomb, death, burial, afterlife