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Pyramid of Menkaure (Mykerinus Pyramid)

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The third and smallest of the great pyramids at Giza is credited to the pharaoh Menkaure (Mycerinus in Greek). It is thought to have been completed at the end of the 26th century BC. Menkaure, like the builders of the other pyramids at Giza, ruled Egypt during the 4th Dynasty during the Old Kingdom Period of Ancient Egypt.

Pyramid of Menkaure (Mykerinus Pyramid)

He is thought to have been the successor of Khafre, the builder of the second pyramid and the Great Sphinx, but historical accounts do not agree with the archeological evidence that suggests this.

Pyramid of Menkaure (Mykerinus Pyramid)

The pyramid had an original height of 215 feet, but stands at 204 feet today as a result of the removal of its outer casing and capstone. The lower section of the pyramid was encased in pink granite and the upper portions in white Tura limestone, as with the other pyramids at Giza and in other pyramid fields. 

Pyramid of Menkaure (Mykerinus Pyramid)
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Archeologists believe that the pyramid was never completed because some of the remaining course of granite at the bottom levels of the pyramid are still rough.


 

Pyramid of Menkaure (Mykerinus Pyramid)


 

Pyramid of Menkaure (Mykerinus Pyramid)