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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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.
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https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/599695861
29.9728781, 31.128802
- 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)
- Queen's pyramid 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.jazkarta.com/places/599695861> [accessed: 25 April 2025]
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