Once covered by a layer of limestone, the Pyramid of El Lahun (known as the Pyramid of Senusert II) was the first large mud-brick pyramid. Its limestone layer was removed during the Nineteenth Dynasty, by Ramses II, who used the pyramid as a quarry to build his temples.
The pyramid is unique in that its core was a knoll of the bed-rock, on which the mud-brick pyramid itself was built, similar to the pyramid of Hawara, and then all cased with limestone. The pyramid measures 48 m in height with a base measuring 106 m in each side. Usually, the entrance of the pyramid is not located in its northern face. Instead, its architect had a way of hiding the corridor that leads into the burial chamber: that was by digging two wells perpendicularly outside the main building of the pyramid, to the sou...
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