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	Dahshur and Meidum Pyramids
		The principal building projects of Pharaoh Sneferu were located at Meidum (20 miles / 30 km south of modern Cairo) and Dahshur (12 miles / 20 km south of Cairo).
		Although the possibility remains that this building was deliberately destroyed for ritual reasons, mainstream archaeology is convinced that the collapse was a result of inadequate engineering and that the Pyramid at Meidum represents a false step in Pyramid development.
		Whatever engineering problems may have existed in the building of the Meidum and Bent Pyramids were resolved and the Red Pyramid has survived the ages in excellent condition, save the pilfering of it's fine limestone casing and its' royal treasures.
	pymd.com /Pyramids-of-Sneferu.htm (645 words)

	Tomb Chamber, Meidum
		Region: Egypt > Beni Suef > River Nile > Pyramid of Meidum
		On the north side of the Pyramid of Meidum a section of the old casing, with the entrance, is exposed.
		A passage 187ft/57m long cuts down obliquely into the rock, runs horizontally for a short distance and then rises to enter the tomb chamber, 20ft/6m long by 81ft/2.60m across and faced with limestone slabs.
	www.planetware.com /river-nile/meidum-tomb-chamber-egy-bensue-tmbcha.htm (155 words)

	Pyramid of Meidum, Egypt
		The Pyramid of Meidum, 6mi/9km southwest of the village of that name, stands on the edge of the Western Desert Plateau, near the middle road into the Fayyum.
		It is believed to have been begun by Huni, the last King of the third Dynasty, and completed by his successor Sneferu, founder of the fourth Dynasty and the immediate predecessor of Cheops, but was probably never used as a burial place.
		The earliest structure, at the core of the pyramid, was a seven stepped mastaba modeled on the older Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara and built over a knoll of rock which is still visible to a height of 130ft/40m.
	www.planetware.com /river-nile/pyramid-of-meidum-egy-bensue-meid.htm (368 words)

	The Ancient Egypt Site - Meidum
		Meidum is located some 80 kilometres to the South of Memphis, on the Westbank of the Nile, to the East of Lake Moëris and the Fayum oasis.
		Although Meidum is mainly known for its collapsed pyramid, there also are some impressive cemeteries to the West, North and East of the pyramid.
		The pyramid at Meidum marks the transition from the Early Dynastic Period to the Old Kingdom.
	www.ancient-egypt.org /topography/meidum (1085 words)

	Meidum Reiseführer − Wikitravel
		Sicher ist dies nicht, ebenso könnte dies, was viel wahrscheinlicher ist, die (erste) Grabstätte seines Sohnes Snofru sein, der selbst noch zwei Pyramidenanlagen in Dahschur besaß.
		Meidum verfügt über keine Unterkunftsmöglichkeiten, diese werden üblicherweise in Kairo gewählt.
		Sie können den Besuch von Meidum mit den Nekropolen von Saqqara, Abusir und/oder Dahschur verbinden.
	www.wikitravel.org /de/Meidum (474 words)

	Guardian's Meidum II
		When you approach the pyramid at Meidum you see the remnants of the pyramid core rising from a mound of rubble.
		This mound is composed of the pulverized casing of the pyramid as well as sand ramps used to quarry the limestone from the original casing.
		Remember that the mastaba was the precursor to the pyramid and this is a nice example of a large mastaba from the late 3rd - early 4th dynasty.
	www.guardians.net /egypt/meidum/meidm971.htm (392 words)

	Huni's Pyramid
		As a matter of fact, the word Meidum in ancient Egyptian texts was known as "Mr-tm", which may be translated to "the lake of Atum".
		It is worth mentioning that a strange truncated-cone pyramid, which contained a great private necropolis, was located in a completely isolated position at the edge of the desert and the cultivated Zone.
		Finally, we have to say how evidence was discovered about the names of some of the gangs into which the workmen were divided for working in the pyramid.
	library.thinkquest.org /C0121761/13.htm (801 words)

	Pyramid of Meidum
		The pyramid at Meidum is one of three constructed during the reign of Sneferu, and is believed by some to have been commenced by that pharaoh’s father and predecessor, Huni.
		One face of the pyramid at Meidum collapsed and was shorn off around the year 2600 BC, during the placement of its outer walls.
		At the Meidum pyramid, the buttresses were not extended to include the structurally significant outer casing.
	mummymania.com /pyramid-of-meidum.htm (478 words)

	Sneferu's pyramid at Meidum
		The area of Meidum is located near the entrance to the Fayum.
		Meidum is dominated by the large limestone pyramid Sneferu/Huni.
		It is at the mastaba of Nefer-Maat and Itet that the famous 'Geese of Meidum' were found.
	egyptphoto.ncf.ca /meidum.htm (209 words)

	The Meidum Pyramid (Probably of Snefru) in Egypt
		However, according to another interpretation, the change in the tomb's form and orientation was connected with the decline of the astral religion and the rise of the solar religion.
		Similarly, the German Egyptologist Dietrich Wildung argued that the pyramid complex in Meidum was a predecessor of the later sun temples of the 5th Dynasty.
		Stadelmann, who believes that the pyramid in Meidum was built for Snefru from the outset, thinks that the complex and surrounding tombs belonged to the queen mother and the princes of a so-called first generation.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/meidump.htm (2863 words)

	Pyramids 2
		The site which is in the vicinity of the oasis of Fayyum, midway between Dahshur and Meidum, and about 100 kilometres south of Cairo, is believed to be in the vicinity of the ancient city of Itjtawy (the precise location of which remains unknown), which served as the capital of Egypt during the 12th Dynasty.
		The pyramid at Meidum is one of three constructed during the reign of Sneferu, and is believed by some to have been commenced by that pharaoh's father and predecessor, Huni.
		It has been suggested that the collapse occurred while construction was underway on the Bent Pyramid at Dahshur (also built by Sneferu), and that this may have been one of the reasons for the design changes implemented during construction of the latter edifice.
	www.the-world-in-focus.com /Africa/Egypt/momuments/pyramids2.html (1062 words)

	4th Dynasty
		The earliest known pyramid structure is that of the Pyramid of Meidum.
		Meidum, however, was not always in it's rough state as is seen in the picture at left.
		As is evidenced by graffiti on the outside of the pyramid, the pyramid survived well into the time of the 18th Dynasty.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/egypt/history/dynasties/dynasty04.html (186 words)

	EgyptSites - Meidum Necropolis
		Snefru's pyramid at Meidum was surrounded by many private burials of Dynasty IV - the first newly established elite cemetery since the archaic necropolis at Saqqara.
		The earliest mummy Petrie found at Meidum was in 1891 and dated to Dynasty V, but this was destroyed when the London Royal College of Surgeons was bombed during the second world war.
		It would appear that many of the tombs built at Meidum were unfinished and never used for burials, probably due to the fact that Snefru moved his pyramid city to Dashur while constructing his pyramids there.
	www.egyptsites.co.uk /lower/pyramids/meidum/necropolis.html (949 words)

	Meidum
		The collapsed pyramid at Meidum may be the first true pyramid in the world; its contender is the the Bent Pyramid at Dahshur.
		The pyramid at Meidum was possibly built as a step pyramid but with an outer shell to create the image of a pyramid.
		Perhaps the architects knew that the structure of this pyramid was inferior; Snefru is accredited with two more attempts of creating a true pyramid (both at Dahshur), and the third time he did succeed.
	www.lexicorient.com /egypt/meidum.htm (230 words)

	Meidum Reiseführer − Wikitravel
		Sicher ist dies nicht, ebenso könnte dies, was viel wahrscheinlicher ist, die (erste) Grabstätte seines Sohnes Snofru sein, der selbst noch zwei Pyramidenanlagen in Dahschur besaß.
		Meidum verfügt über keine Unterkunftsmöglichkeiten, diese werden üblicherweise in Kairo gewählt.
		Sie können den Besuch von Meidum mit den Nekropolen von Saqqara, Abusir und/oder Dahschur verbinden.
	wikitravel.org /de/Meidum (475 words)

	W-M: Construction of the Giza Pyramids, by Burke Thomas
		The next structure of interest in the development of the Egyptian pyramid is the Meidum pyramid, which around the year 2600BC collapsed during the third stage of construction, the alignment of the outer walls [construction stages are mentioned in detail later in this paper].
		The Meidum was a true pyramid, in that its outward shape was a tetrahedron.
		Unfortunately, whether by reason of carelessness or laziness or simple lack of knowledge, the interior support for the pyramid partially collapsed and part of at least one pyramidal face was shorn off and to this day there are massive rubble mounds beneath the base of the pyramid.
	www.world-mysteries.com /gw_tb_gp.htm (3707 words)

	Sneferu's pyramid at Meidum
		Maspero was the first to open the pyramid and some of the mastabas in the area, in the framework of a wide-ranging archeological project whose goal was to discover and document the pyramids texts.
		They tunneled into the pyramid and discovered that the core is composed of five accretion layers, inclined at an angle of seventy-five degrees and standing on a square base about thirty-eight meters on a side, whose outer surfaces were built of carefully dressed limestone blocks.
		He even reconstructed, on the basis of the ruins, a corridor leading toward the pyramid from the southeast, which Petrie discovered in 1910, and which in his opinion was used to transport construction materials.
	egyptphoto.ncf.ca /meidum1.htm (509 words)

	Dynasty III
		The truer pyramids at Dashur, and the casing around the Meidum pyramid that gave it a true pyramid shape, was the next evolution in stone technology that was finally perfected in the construction of the great pyramids of Giza.
		The Meidum pyramid uses larger blocks but it is not as well constructed, the filling stones are rough not smooth, and it only has half the buttresses as the earlier pyramids – and so Imhotep may have died by the time of its actual construction.
		The change from a north to east facing pyramid temple, causeway and valley temple in front of the pyramids indicated a rise in the religious importance of the sun god Re and the place of the king’s resurrection and afterlife.
	www.ghg.net /ritakarl/exodus/dyn3.htm (2395 words)

	Egyptian History - Dr. Zahi Hawass
		Indeed, with sides 183.5m long it would be much larger than any of the stepped pyramids; but during construction the architect faced many structural problems and he had no choice but to change the angle of his 54 degree slope, reducing it to 43degree21' and creating the so-called Bent Pyramid.
		His theory supposes that the Dahshur architect had learned that the Meidum pyramid was collapsing and so decided to, change the angle at Dahshur.
		This theory has many factors against it: the Meidum pyramid was considered by Egyptians of the New Kingdom as a glory, and it seems that the collapse happened in the last century when farmers took stones to build modem constructions nearby.
	www.zahihawass.com /egyptian_hist_dev_early.htm (1687 words)

	Guardian's Meidum
		The mysteries of Egypt are many and the Pyramid at Meidum is no exception.
		Five miles south of Saqqara stands the tower-like pyramid of Meidum, which scarcely resembles a typical pyramid at all.
		Before the Pyramid at Meidum was built, the only preceding pyramids were all "step" or "layer" pyramids.
	www.guardians.net /egypt/meidum/meidum.htm (294 words)

	Ancient Egypt Magazine - Meidum
		Meidum, some 70 kms south of Giza, can hardly be said to be a real tourist site and there is certainly less hassle for the determined tourist than at many of the sites around Egypt, but a visit does take a little effort to get the best out of it, writes John Dixon.
		He suggested that we took the desert road to Meidum to which we all agreed – how could we disagree with him since he was driving and knew the way!
		Eventually the pyramid of Meidum could be seen towering above the desert, stark straight lines rising from a sea of sand.
	www.ancientegyptmagazine.com /Meidum12.htm (1630 words)

	The Pyramid of Meidum
		Pyramid of Meidum and the Pyramid of Dashur, in a one-day trip.
		Meidum is located 65Km to the south of Sakkara.
		The most famous is called the “Scene of the Geese of Meidum”.
	www.ask-aladdin.com /pyramid_of_mydom.htm (1374 words)

	Meidum Pyramid (Greater Cairo & Surroundings) ... youregypt.com
		Meidum is about 8 kilometers (5 miles) south of Saqqara.
		The main attraction is the unusual pyramid of Meidum.
		The pyramid is believed to be started by Huni the last king of the 3rd dynasty and completed by his son, Snefru, the founder of the 4th dynasty.
	www.youregypt.com /eguide/destinations/greatercairo/surroundings/meidum (154 words)

	Guardian's Meidum II
		When you approach the pyramid at Meidum you see the remnants of the pyramid core rising from a mound of rubble.
		This mound is composed of the pulverized casing of the pyramid as well as sand ramps used to quarry the limestone from the original casing.
		Remember that the mastaba was the precursor to the pyramid and this is a nice example of a large mastaba from the late 3rd - early 4th dynasty.
	guardians.net /egypt/meidum/meidm971.htm (392 words)

	Meidum - Suchergebnis zu Meidum - Definition zu Meidum - Deutsches Bedeutungswörterbuch - ...
		Meidum - Suchergebnis zu Meidum - Definition zu Meidum - Deutsches Bedeutungswörterbuch - www.bedeutungswoerterbuch.de
		Meidum ist eine Ägyptenägyptische Nekropole und Standort der Meidum-Pyramide, erbaut unter Pharao Snofru.
		Dort findet sich neben einer Übersicht der Autoren die Möglichkeit, den Original-Text des Artikels Meidum zu editieren.
	www.bedeutungswoerterbuch.de /Meidum.html (146 words)

	The Pyramids of the Fayum
		At el-Lisht, at the month of the Faiyum, two mudbrick pyramids were built, that of Amememhet I and Senwosret I, 1st and 2nd kings of the 12th dynasty.
		The fourth dynasty pyramid of Sneferu is at Meidum, about 50 km south of Dahshur.
		Here in a completely isolated position at the edge of the desert and the cultivated zone, is the strange truncated-cone pyramid within is a great private necropolis.
	egyptphoto.ncf.ca /fayum.htm (419 words)

	Meidum
		At first glance, the object at Meidum does not look like a pyramid, it looks like some sort of tower, possibly a failed attempt at a step pyramid.
		This is what remains of the pyramid at Meidum, built by Sneferu in the Fourth Dynasty (2613 - 2494 B.C.).
		Note the smooth rise towards the bottom of the pyramid that is visible within the rubble.
	puffin.creighton.edu /museums/cohagan/meidum.htm (282 words)

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