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Pyramid of El-Lahoun
The site of El-Lahoun is the southernmost
pyramid structure in Egypt. Its builders
reduced the amount of work necessary to
construct it by ingeniously using as its
foundation and core a 12 meter high natural
limestone hill. The pyramid of El - Lahoun
was built by the 12dyansty. Pharaoh
Senwosret II
The site of El - Lahoun is the southernmost
pyramid structure in Egypt. Its builders
reduced the amount of work necessary to
construct it by ingeniously using as its
foundation and core a 12 meter high natural
limestone hill. The pyramid core is composed
of cross walls of limestone over knoll of
rock (3 courses are seen to the left, the
lower 2 are covered with the lower 2 are
covered with hornet mud nests). Binding the
bricks together are small amounts of mortar
and a filling of sand. |
