Lepsius list of pyramids

Lepsius list of pyramids

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In 1842 Lepsius visited Lower Egypt and made a list [ [http://edoc3.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/lepsius/textb.html] Lepsius-Projekt. Retrieved June 07, 2006.] . of the pyramids that he found there. They are numbered from north to south, starting at Abu Rawash in the north. Some of these structures have later been proved not true pyramids.

ee also

*Egyptian pyramids
*List of Egyptian pyramids

References

Further reading

* Verner, Miroslav, The Pyramids – Their Archaeology and History, Atlantic Books, 2001, ISBN 1-84354-171-8


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