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Hawara Pyramid Labyrinth 6394EG07JHP Hawara Pyramid Labyrinth South Face View el-Fayoum Ancient Egypt Buried Sand shows what little remains of the famous complex described by Herodotus and Strabo at this location, near Faiyum, to the south of Cairo and which 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.The Labyrinth was compared because of its extensive mortuary and temple complex to that at Knossos and although little now remains new excavations are underway to determine what might still exist. This pyramid was built after the king’s first attempt of the so-called Black Pyramid at Dashur was abandoned owing to subsidence problems. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Hawara, pyramid, face, el-Fayoum, Faiyum, Fayyum, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, antiquity, upright, pharaoh, Amenemhet, Amenemhat 111, royal, tomb, burial, afterlife, Graeco-Roman, mortuary, temple, chapels, Labyrinth, Herodotus, Greek, Strabo, Minos, Knossos, mudbrick, canal, water, table
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Hawara Pyramid Labyrinth 6394EG07JHP
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Hawara Pyramid Labyrinth South Face View el-Fayoum Ancient Egypt Buried

Sand shows what little remains of the famous complex described by Herodotus and Strabo at this location, near Faiyum, to the south of Cairo and which 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.The Labyrinth was compared because of its extensive mortuary and temple complex to that at Knossos and although little now remains new excavations are underway to determine what might still exist. This pyramid was built after the king’s first attempt of the so-called Black Pyramid at Dashur was abandoned owing to subsidence problems.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Hawara, pyramid, face, el-Fayoum, Faiyum, Fayyum, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, antiquity, upright, pharaoh, Amenemhet, Amenemhat 111, royal, tomb, burial, afterlife, Graeco-Roman, mortuary, temple, chapels, Labyrinth, Herodotus, Greek, Strabo, Minos, Knossos, mudbrick, canal, water, table