Dahshur - Southern Brick Pyramid

To the east of the Bent Pyramid and some 1.5mi/2.5km south of the Black Pyramid, on the edge of the desert plateau near the village of Minshat Dahshur, is the Southern Brick Pyramid, which, like the Black Pyramid, was originally faced with slabs of Tura limestone. It is believed to have been built as the tomb of Amenemhet III (12th Dynasty; C. 1844-c. 1797), who irrigated and settled the Fayyum; but Amenemhet later built another pyramid at Hawara in the Fayyum and was buried there. Practically nothing is left of the valley temple of this pyramid, which seems to have been symstematically demolished in the Ramessid period.