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World Heritage places tagged “quartzite” in Egypt · Mysteria

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World Heritage places tagged “quartzite” in Egypt

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🇪🇬 Egypt

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid

Pyramid of Ameny Qemau (South Saqqara)

Second Intermediate Period incipient / late Middle Kingdom · Ancient Egyptian

Early 13th-Dynasty quartzite-sarcophagus pyramid of Ameny Qemau at South Saqqara — 52 m base c.1793 BCE with intact monolithic sarcophagus and canopic chest.

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid

Pyramid of Khendjer

Second Intermediate Period, early 13th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian (13th Dynasty; king foreign origin 'boar')

Only completed pyramid of 13th Dynasty at South Saqqara, for obscure Levantine-derived king Khendjer (c.