Red Pyramid

Jump to the full entry & travel map Şaqqārah, Al Jīzah, EgyptThis morning we slept in a bit, had a wonderful breakfast……that’s a standard negotiating procedure.At Dahshur we visited the Red Pyramid, built by Cheops father Sneferu.  My legs are aching  from…

Times OnlineARCHEOLOGISTS and forensic experts believe they have identified the skeleton of Cleopatra’s younger sister, murdered more than 2,000……lies undiscovered inside the pyramid.The inner chambers of the nearby Red pyramid, also built by Sneferu, are already accessible to…

Los Angeles Times (Kathryn Wilkens)Most time-strapped visitors take a bus to the pyramids, but we were on a walking tour. Our group of 14, along……Pyramid, so called because the angle of slope changes halfway up, and the Red Pyramid. Amazingly, discoveries are still being made. In…

I grew up on Long Island, where winters are cold, spring is rainy and blustery rainy and summers are....well, sometimes they're kind of gloomy with……brightly lit emporium of food, there were large pyramids of peppers - one red pyramid, one yellow one, and one green one. Even if you…

Jump to the full entry & travel map Cairo, EgyptBack in Cairo to close out my Egypt tour with a visit to the Pyramids.First……bad.Later that day went to see the Red and Bent Pyramids in Dashur. The Red Pyramid was the first completed, non-step pyramid. Was able to…

King Sneferu was an interesting fellow, obviously quite stubborn, and over the course of his life managed to build three pyramids (only one “true”), in all using more stone than any other pharaoh in history. Dahshur was home to two of Snef’s pyramids, the Red Pyramid and the Bent Pyramid.…

King Sneferu (as appeared in his cartouche), the strength and the founder of the Fourth Dynasty, is best known to us today for his prodigious……and the first successful true pyramid, is the North Dahshur Pyramid or “Red Pyramid”, so called for the red color of its sandstone…

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Sneferu who founded the Fourth Dynasty, is best known to us today for his prodigious building program. The so-called “Collapsed……and the first successful true pyramid, is the North Dahshur Pyramid or “Red Pyramid”, so called for the red color of its sandstone…