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Menkaure's Pyramid
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Submitted byAlexHunger
AddedMar 26 2006
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Description Smallest of the 3 Giza Pyramid with 77 Meters height and 108 Meters sides and 51 degree angle.
There are remains of granite casing at the bottom. It is smooth near the entrance and has some hyrogliphics at this location.
Originaly, the Sarcophagus was still extant in one of the 2 chambers , but it was lost When Colonel Howard Vyse sent it to England in a ship, which sank of the coast of Spain.

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