Mazghuna

Remains of the southern pyramid of Mazghuna
Mazghuna is  a  locate  south  of  Dahshur associated with the last rules of the 12th Dynasty. The pyramidal works of Akhenaten (1799-1787 B.C.E.) and Queen Sobekneferu (1787-1783 B.C.E.) were discovered at that place. They were brother and sister, and they established to renovate their dynastic claims and halt the disintegration of Egypt and the first of the Second Intermediate Period, to no help. The Hyksos and other established details were already ready in the  Delta, and  the nome  tribes were establishing their own claims to domain and power. The pyramidal tombs of these rules are in ruins.

Imhotep Museum

Model of the Step Pyramid in Imhotep Museum
Imhotep Museum at Saqqara, founded in 2006, is a place museum intentional to house artifacts from local diggings. It serves to set visitors for their inspect to the necropolis of Saqqara, which includes  the Step Pyramid of King Djoser, the Serapeum, the pyramids of Teti and King Unas, and elite tombs from all epochs of ancient Egyptian history. The museum is discovered after Imhotep, the Old Kingdom official credited with design the Step Pyramid; later deified, he became honorable as a wise man and a patron of medicine

Gisr el-Mudir

Gisr el-Mudir
The Gisr el-Mudir , placed just west of King Sekhemkhets pyramid complex, was located in the early twentieth century, but not inquired until the middle-1990s. It comprises of masonry of roughly hewn limestone blockages in layers, taking it potentially the earliest known stone structure in Egypt. Its builder is unknown, but proposed dates have shifted  from  Dynasty 3  to  the  Early Dynastic period, and in particular to Dynasty 2. Others have tentatively imputed the Gisr el-Mudir to Khasekhemwy. Pottery observed during the 1995 season can be antique to the end of Dynasty 2 or starting of the third Dynasty. Accordingly, it has been indicated that these empty precincts are the counterparts of the Abydene enclosures built in muck brick.

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