Red pyramid

The Red Pyramid located About 2Km to the north of the southern pyramid in dahshur, built for King Snefru, architect avoided all previous mistakes by following the same angle from bottom to top - 43 degrees, and in doing so created the first, perfect, complete Pyramid in history, This became the “blueprint” for all the Pyramids.

The Red Pyramid is known as the Northern Pyramid because of its location, and calling it the “Red Pyramid” is related to the very special kind of rosette limestone that the builders had used to build the inner burial chamber, It is 99m in height, and each side of the base is 220m in length.

The entrance of red pyramid located in the northern face of the pyramid with steep of 60 m. long passage leads down to the 1st chamber, which in turn connects to the 2nd chamber by a low rectangular passageway, Both of these chambers are about the same size with high walls, and a corbelled ceiling, At the far end of the 2nd chamber is the entrance to the burial chamber.

You will find A wooden ladder takes you up to the entrance of burial chamber, about 8m above the floor level a wooden bridge spans the burial chamber itself with its corbelled ceiling, also there is corbelled burial chamber in which contains fragmentary human remains, possibly of Sneferu himself were found, Also look for charcoal graffiti left by British explorers in the early 19th century.

Snefru's cartouche was an important discovery, tells the date of the Red Pyramid and shows the duration time of its construction progress and the events that have been happened during its building, therefore we knew that this pyramid was built approximately in the 22nd and the 29th years during the reign of Snefru, as the Red Pyramid was completely built in approximately.