Pyramids of Queens
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).
Last modified
Mar 11, 2025 05:08 PM
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History
tags:
pyramid,
extant remains
There are three satellite pyramids, typically referred to as "Queen's pyramids", associated with the pyramid of Menkaure on the Giza plateau.
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/674361719
29.9717794, 31.1281233
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Queen's pyramid (2670 BC - 2168 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- None
- Pyramids of Queens located at Giza (unspecified date range)
- Pyramids of Queens part of (physical/topographic) Pyramid of Menkaure (2670 BC - 2168 BC)
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pyramid
- See Further:
- Related:
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Pyramids of Queens: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/674361719> [accessed: 09 April 2025]
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