Pyramid of Menkaure
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Aug 20, 2020 10:16 PM
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The Pyramid of Menkaure is the smallest of the three main pyramids located on the Giza plateau. It marks the tomb of the fourth dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Menkaure.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/599695861
29.972953, 31.1287557
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of the Pyramid of Menkaure (2670 BC - 2168 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Pyramid of Menkaure (English, modern)
- Pyramid of Menkaure located at Giza (unspecified date range)
- Pyramids of Queens part of (physical/topographic) Pyramid of Menkaure (2670 BC - 2168 BC)
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Originally the pyramid reached a height of 65.5 meters (215 feet). It now stands to 61 m (204 feet) and measures 108.5 meters at the base.
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Pyramid of Menkaure: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/599695861> [accessed: 26 March 2025]
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