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Meidum, Maydum or Maidum (Arabic: ميدوم, Ancient Egyptian: Mr(y)-Jtmw, lit. 'beloved of Atum', Ancient Greek: Μοι(ε)θυμις) [1] is an archaeological site in Lower Egypt. It contains a large pyramid and several mudbrick mastabas. The pyramid was Egypt's first straight-sided one, but it partially collapsed in ancient times. [2]
Pyramid of Meidum (Snefru endures) Meidum: 144 65 638,733 (possibly unfinished) 51° 50' 35" [3] Pyramid complex includes a satellite pyramid. The Meidum pyramid may have been originally built for Huni and continued by Sneferu. 4th Sneferu Bent Pyramid
Giza, Egypt: Pyramid of Khafre: 136.4 448 2570 BC Giza, Egypt: Red Pyramid: 105 344 c. 2600 BC Cairo, Egypt: Bent Pyramid: 104.71 344 c. 2600 BC Cairo, Egypt: Toniná pyramid 74 243 Chiapas, Mexico: Much of height includes hilltop. La Danta: 72 236 c. 400BC El Petén, Guatemala: Height not independently verified. Includes platform. Pyramid ...
The pyramid fields include the Abusir, Saqqara, and Dahshur pyramid complexes, which were all built in the vicinity of Egypt's ancient capital of Memphis. [1] Further Old Kingdom pyramid fields were located at the sites Abu Rawash, Zawyet El Aryan, and Meidum.
In the hundred years prior to Giza—beginning with Djoser, who ruled from 2687 to 2667 BC, and amongst dozens of other temples, smaller pyramids, and general construction projects—four other massive pyramids were built: the Step pyramid of Saqqara (believed to be the first Egyptian pyramid), the pyramid of Meidum, the Bent Pyramid, and the ...
Nofret was buried with her husband in mastaba 6 at Meidum. [2] In 1871 by Daninos, beautiful statues of Rahotep and Nofret were found. [3] Nofret is depicted with a black wig and very fair face. Her titles in hieroglyphs on the back of her chair name her as "King's Acquaintance". [4] The statues are now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. [5]
Rahotep, (r’-htp(.w) - satisfied in god Ra [2]), was a prince, the son of pharaoh Snofru and his first wife Hetepheres I, in ancient Egypt during the 4th Dynasty, reign of his father Snofru possibly his brother Khufu too. [note 1].
The area is well known in Egypt for its cement factories. The nearby Meidum pyramid is the only prominent tourist attraction in the area. Due to different ways of transcribing the spelling it can also be known as Beni Suef, or Beni Swaif.