Pyramid of Khendjer
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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Nov 20, 2023 09:14 AM
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History
The pyramid of the Pharaoh Khendjer (Thirteenth Dynasty) who ruled Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period (ca. 1760 B.C.)
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/945930913
29.83229655, 31.2239184
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Pyramid of Khendjer (2010 BC - 1640 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Imagery location of Pyramid of Khendjer (2010 BC - 1640 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Pyramid of Khendjer (English, modern)
- Pyramid of Khendjer located at Saqqarah (unspecified date range)
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tomb, pyramid
Pleiades
The Pyramid of Khendjer was one part of a larger mortuary complex and originally stood to ca. 37 meters (121 feet) in height. Gustave Jéquier discovered the pyramidion in 1929.
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Pyramid of Khendjer: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/945930913> [accessed: 25 April 2024]
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