Pyramid of Djedefre

Pyramid of Djedefre

Infobox Egyptian pyramid
Name=Pyramid of Djedefre
Type=Ruin
Owner=Djedefre
The Pyramid of Djedefre consists today mostly of ruins located at Abu Rawash in Egypt. It's Egypt's most northerly pyramid, and is believed to be built by Djedefre, son and successor to king Khufu. Originally it was thought that this pyramid had never been completed, but the current archaeological consensus is that not only was it completed under Djedefre, but that it was originally about the same size as the Pyramid of Menkaure — the third largest of the Giza pyramids. [Michel Vallogia, Études sur l'Ancien Empire et la nécropole de Saqqara (Fs Lauer) 1997. p.418] It is believed to have originally been the most beautiful of the pyramids, with an exterior of polished, imported granite, limestone and crowned with a large pyramidion. It is also believed for this reason the completed pyramid was largly deconstructed by the Roman Empire to build their own construction projects after the conquest of Egypt under Roman Emperor Augustus.

References

External links

* [http://www.newsweek.com/id/141635 Newsweek's Interactive Graphic on Djedefre's pyramid with Interactive Timeline of the major pyramids of ancient Egypt]

ee also

* Egyptian Pyramids


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