Mastaba

Step Pyramid

Meydum Pyramid

BENT PYRAMID

Red Pyramid

3 GREAT PYRAMIDS OF GIZA

ROCK HEWN / CUT TOMBS

Structure: Mastaba
Date: 3000-2500 BC
Owner: Djoser
Purpose: a house structure in Ancient
Egypt, Mastabas marked the burial
sites.
Materials: rectangular flat-roofed

buildings, made of mud brick, cover the

burial chamber.
Location: Egyptian city of Abydos
Info: a height of 1720 feet (56 m),
consisting of an underground burial
chamber with rooms above it (at
ground level) in which to store
offerings.

Location: Egypt. Meidum.

Info: size of the pyramid was 144m square

and 42m high. The entrance into the

pyramid is on the north side up a 30m
stairway.

Structure: Bent Pyramid

Date: 2600 BC
Owner: Sneferu
Purpose: unknown religious purpose
Materials: limestone, pink granite,
basalt, and alabaster
Location: royal necropolis of Dahshur

Structure: Step Pyramid

Date: 27th century BC
Owner: Djose
Purpose: Intended to hold his
mummified body.

Info:

Height
Base
Slope

101.1 metres (332 ft)

188.6 metres (619 ft)
5427' (lower)
4322' (upper)

Materials: 11.6 million cubic feet

(330,400 cubic meters) of stone and
clay.
Location: Saqqara

Structure: Red Pyramid

Info: 197-foot-high (60 meters)

pyramid, with six layers, one built on
top of the other.

Date: 2590 BCE2570 BCE

Owner: Sneferu
Purpose: Burial Place
Materials: red limestone stones

Structure: Meidum Pyramid

Date: 2613 - 2494 BC
Owner: Huni
Purpose: Burial Sites
Materials: Stone and Clay

Location: Giza Governorate, Egypt

Info: also called the North Pyramid

Height
Base
Slope

105 metres (344 ft)

220 metres (722 ft)
4322'

Base

138.8 metres (455 ft), contemporary

230.4 metres (756 ft)

Structure: 3 GREAT PYRAMIDS OF GIZA

Date: 25802560 BC
Owner: Giza
Purpose: Burial Place
Materials: limestone, pink granite,
basalt, and alabaster

Structure: ROCK HEWN / CUT TOMBS

Date: 5th century BC.
Owner: Nicholas of Myra

Location: Al-Jzah (Giza) in northern

Egypt

Purpose: Two burial sites

Info:

Location: Myra in Turkey

Height
146.5 metres (481 ft), ancient

Materials: rock-cut tombs carved

Info: Myra once had a great temple of the

goddess Artemis Eleuthera, said to be
Lycia's largest and most splendid building.