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Tombs · Mysteria

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Burial monuments and the things sent with the dead.

Places: 165
Countries: 15
World Heritage: 66

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid

Headless Pyramid

Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, ~2422 BCE (or First Intermediate 10th Dynasty) · Ancient Egyptian

Headless Pyramid (Lepsius XXIX) east of Teti at Saqqara, c.2422 BCE Menkauhor?, 52.5 m base, rubble mound.

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid

Pyramid of Athribis — Southern Mound

late 3rd Dynasty?, c.2650-2600 BCE · Ancient Egyptian

Low limestone rubble mound 20 m base at Athribis (Wannina) on west bank near Sohag: attributed to late 3rd Dynasty small pyramid but poorly published, surveyed by Lepsius and Schenkel.