Dashour pyramids with Egypt Vacation Tours
Location
The necropolis of Dashur is one of the most impressive sites of Ancient Egypt. It sits on the west bank of the Nile south of Cairo and southwest of the ancient Egyptian city of Menefer (Memphis)... South of Saqqara
The necropolis of Dashur is one of the most impressive sites of Ancient Egypt. It sits on the west bank of the Nile south of Cairo and southwest of the ancient Egyptian city of Menefer (Memphis)... South of Saqqara
The Name
The necropolis is named Dashur after the village of the same name which is close to the ancient necropolis. The site may have been known as "wnt snfrw" ("unet Sneferu") in ancient Egypt, as referenced in story of Sinuhe but it may also have been known by a number of names or by the names of the most prominent monuments (as was the custom)
The necropolis is named Dashur after the village of the same name which is close to the ancient necropolis. The site may have been known as "wnt snfrw" ("unet Sneferu") in ancient Egypt, as referenced in story of Sinuhe but it may also have been known by a number of names or by the names of the most prominent monuments (as was the custom)
The necropolis of Dashur
Dashur is host to a large number of ancient Egyptian burials, but it is probably most famous as the home of the king Senefru pyramids; the Bent Pyramid and the Red Pyramid of the Old Kingdom. A number of officials and members of the royal family also placed their tombs at Dashur to the east of the two pyramids of Sneferu. Among them is the tomb of Kanefer, the son of Sneferu.
Dashur is host to a large number of ancient Egyptian burials, but it is probably most famous as the home of the king Senefru pyramids; the Bent Pyramid and the Red Pyramid of the Old Kingdom. A number of officials and members of the royal family also placed their tombs at Dashur to the east of the two pyramids of Sneferu. Among them is the tomb of Kanefer, the son of Sneferu.
However, there are a number of other Old Kingdom burials at the site and pyramids and tombs were also built at Dashur during the Middle Kingdom, the pyramids of the twelfth dynasty, the pyramid of the king Amenemhat II who built his pyramid close to the Old Kingdom mastabas, the pyramid of Senusert III (Sesostris III) and the pyramid of Amenemhat III and number of high officials were also buried at Dashur, such as the Vizier Sa-Iset.
During the Second Intermediate Period a number of small pyramids were also built in the area and date to the thirteenth dynasty, but only that of Ameny Qemau has been fully excavated and none are in a particularly good state.
The northern part of Dashur remained popular as a necropolis for private burials during the New Kingdom but it seems to have been abandoned as a royal burial site by this time. Fine examples of noble tombs from the period are the tomb of Ipay (a the Royal Butler buried during the reign of Tutankhamun or Horemheb) and the tomb of Mes (Royal scribe and Overseer of the Horses during the Ramesside period.
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