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Site WatchSite Name: Amenemhat III Pyramid at Dashour. Alternative Name: Dahshur Black Pyramid
Country: Egypt
NOTE: This site is 1.792 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Lower Egypt (North) Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Nearest Town: Cairo  Nearest Village: Dahshur
Latitude: 29.791100N  Longitude: 31.223860E
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Amenemhat III Pyramid at Dashour.
Amenemhat III Pyramid at Dashour. submitted by AlexHunger : Amenemhat III was the 6th Pharaoh of the 12th Dynasty. This Pyramid lies 800 meters East of the bent pyramid at Dashour. It apparently started collapsing as it neared completion after 14 years of construction. It is largely built of mudbricks and no stone structural elements are visible other than a few casing blocks. Several other 12th Dynasty Pharaohs built pyramids at Dashour. The local Ant... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Pyramid in Lower Egypt (North)
Amenemhat III was the 6th Pharaoh of the 12th Dynasty. This Pyramid lies 800 meters East of the bent pyramid at Dahshur.

It apparantly started collapsing as it neared completion after 14 years of construction. It is largely built of mudbricks and no stone structural elements are visible other than a few casing blocks. He then built an other smaller one at Hawwara further to the south.
A 13th Century Pharaoh was then intered in the ruins, after Egypt slipped into the 3rd chaotic intermediary period and split.
Several other 12th Dynasty Pharaohs built pyramids at Dashour, but they are more difficult to see and the ones from Sneferu are much more spectacular

The local Antiquities Police discourage the longuish hike accross the desert, but can be encouraged to look the other way.

Note: Archaeologists fear for pyramid sites as illegal building gathers pace in wake of Arab spring.
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Amenemhat III Pyramid at Dashour.
Amenemhat III Pyramid at Dashour. submitted by AlexHunger : Amenemhat III was the 6th Pharao of the 12th Dynasty. This Pyramid lies 800 meters East of the bent pyramid at Dashour. It apparantly started collapsing as it neared completion after 14 years of construction. It is largely built of mudbricks and no stone structural elements are visible other than a few casing blocks. Several other 12th Dynasty Pharaos built pyramids at Dashour. The local Antiq... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Amenemhat III Pyramid at Dashour.
Amenemhat III Pyramid at Dashour. submitted by karolus : The Black Pyramid, Dashur (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Egyptians grab ancient land of the pharaohs to bury their dead by bat400 on Tuesday, 08 October 2013
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In Manshiet Dahshur, 25 miles south of Cairo, the villagers recently extended the boundaries of the cemetery. For Ahmed Rageb, a carpenter who buried his cousin in the annexe, it was a logical decision. "The old cemetery is full. And there is no other place to bury my family."

There is just one problem. The new tombs are perilously close to some of Egypt's oldest: the pyramids of Dahshur, less famous than their larger cousins at Giza, but just as venerable. This is protected land, and no one is supposed to build here – yet more than 1,000 illegal tombs have appeared in the desert since January.

"What happened was crazy," said Mohamed Youssef, Dahshur's chief archaeologist. "They came and took space for about 20 generations."

The tombs nestle in the dunes below the Red Pyramid, considered the pharaohs' first successful attempt at a smooth-sided structure. To the south is the Bent Pyramid. In the east, nearer the Nile, lies the Black Pyramid – a collapsed colossus on which the villagers are most in danger of encroaching.

"Some of them have a real need for the tombs for their families," said Youssef, who said that the land had been designated as government property since the late 1970s. "But when you have 1,000 people, some of them will want to do illegal excavation."

The situation is symptomatic of a deterioration in law and order since the fall of the Mubarak regime. Nationwide, the police no longer had the inclination to patrol either the streets or sites such as Dahshur. This left the inspectors to fend for themselves.

"It's very dangerous for us," said Ramadan al-Qot, a site inspector who grew up in the village, three of whose colleagues were hospitalised following a run-in with looters in December. "The thieves hide behind the tombs and shoot at us."

The retreat of the state is just one explanation for the rise in looting and land grabs. Locals say it is also related to the way that the 2011 uprising prompted many ordinary Egyptians to shed some of their instinctive fear of authority.

"That's the reason for the building: the revolution," agreed Abdo Diab, a carpenter who has built a tomb at Dahshur. "All the people now, we are not afraid of the army or the police or any government."
"If we want something, we do it."

At Dahshur, that is what has happened. In January, a dozen people who are said to have needed tombs for their relatives started building on restricted pyramid land. The site's inspectors reported it to the police – but there was no response. "No one demolished their tombs because the government is so weak," said Youssef.
But many villagers still differentiated between their actions and the raids organised by armed gangs equipped with expensive diggers. "Some people built tombs to steal archaeology, definitely," said 28-year-old Walid Ibrahim, picnicking on the boundary between the old and new cemeteries. "But all the old tombs are full and there's no place to bury our new dead."

There have been suggestions that both the looting and the government's failure to tackle it results from the rise of Islamists who are culturally opposed to Egypt's heathen heritage. Countered Nigel Hetherington, a British archaeologist and film-maker, "There is some kind of undercurrent in this story [that this is] about Muslims against their foreign past. But it's not. I've met Salafis here, and their views are not mine – but not one of them wanted to blow up the pyramid."
Hetherington argues that the illegal building stemmed from locals' economic and social alienation from their ancient heritage. "All they are is a cash cow for tourists," said Hetherington of the pyramids. "And if you're not in that business, where's the benefit?"

Thanks to coldrum for the link. For more, see Patrick Kingsley's article at http://www.guardian.co.uk
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    From rumour to bulldozer by bat400 on Monday, 11 November 2013
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    coldrum sends Nevine El-Aref's article from weekly.ahram.org.eg/. This is an excerpt:


    More than two years after the January 2011 Revolution, urban and agricultural encroachment continues to threaten Egypt’s archaeological sites. The lack of security that overwhelmed the country during and after the revolution has certainly taken its toll. The sanctity of spiritual and archaeological environments have been desecrated, with plundering and destruction by vandals, thieves and neighbouring residents being carried out virtually unchecked.

    DAHSHOUR NECROPOLIS: An armed gang accompanied by residents of Ezbet Dahshour have been ravaging the area in front of King Amenemhat III’s Black Pyramid and digging in the sand in order to install a modern private cemetery.

    This area was a necropolis for ancient Egyptian nobles and officials, and a German archaeological mission currently excavating there is discovering more to add to Dahshour’s history.

    The invaders dug more than 30 new tombs on the site, building an ugly construction using white cement blocks. “Not only do they distort the scenery and the panoramic view of the site, but they are destroying the ancient artefacts buried in the sand underneath,” says Nasser Ramadan, director-general of the Dahshour archaeological site. “Our hands are tied and our heritage is in danger, and nobody is coming to the rescue.”

    Although all campaigns launched by archaeologists and the authorities concerned to rescue Dahshour from encroachment, and UNESCO visited to inspect the current situation to intervene to stop the intrusion and help save one of its world heritage sites, all attempts to solve the problem in an amicable manner have so far failed. The Ezbet Dahshour residents on the site have refused to move to another plot away from the archaeological area where they could easily build a modern cemetery.

    The MSA has taken legal steps, but since the intruders still refuse to move the ministry is now collaborating with the Tourism and Antiquities Police to expel them by force. They have been allocated a new plot for their cemetery, and now the ministry is carrying out an archaeological inspection of the new site before handing it over to the intruders so they can commence building.

    In the meantime, the intruders, in total disregard of the legal processes, are insisting on staying where they are and continuing construction. They have now raised the building to the second floor.

    Antiquities experts warn that the construction of the new cemetery endangers the ancient complex. Villagers say their cemeteries are full, but that the authorities did not give permits or land for new ones, so they grabbed what they insisted was empty desert to erect family tombs.
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