Red Pyramid

As Egyptian scientists have said, the Red Pyramid is the world's largest pyramid after the wonderful pyramid of Khufu, known as one of the pyramids of Giza. Dahshur is also a Red Pyramid hosting site. It also has the largest base among all Egyptian pyramids, the fourth highest Egyptian pyramid and contains just about 160 layers of stone.

The Red Pyramid was built to be enthusiastic to King Sneferu, and according to the history of ancient Egyptian civilization, the architect who built it avoid any mistakes that might have occurred during the building of the previous pyramids. So followed the same angle from the bottom up that was 43 degrees, The Red Pyramid is the first completed pyramid in ancient history, as known as the Northern Pyramid for its location. It was then named the Red Pyramid because of its building stone, which consists of a unique type of pink limestone in which it was used in the construction of the burial chamber, each side of the base of the Red Pyramid is 220 m, and its height is 99 m.

 
With White Bird Travel you should be excited and passionate about visiting the Red Pyramid through our tours, and have knowledge of Egyptian history. There was a hindrance when the Red Pyramid was built. They used the limestone to preserve the pyramid, but unfortunately some stones were demolished, although many destroyed stones were covered with many inscriptions. There were also red inscriptions, some of which belonged to King Snefru. 

 
Moreover, the Snefru Cartouche is considered a very valuable antiquity. History has stated that the Red Pyramid shows the time period of its construction and the procedures that took place when it was built. So we learned that this pyramid was built almost in year’s 22nd and 29th year during the time of Snefru, and the entire red pyramid was built in about seventeen years.

Fell impressed by the remain antiques of the first capstone that ever discovered and the mortuary temple which are located at the Eastern side of this pyramid, This temple had great value because Snefru pioneered the alignment of Egyptian temples, So he was following the path of the sun, so the entrance to the pyramid is only on the north side, The pyramid includes a 206-foot driveway descending on the first room, which has a 40-foot perforated roof, In addition to the three Red Pyramid rooms with solid ceilings, it includes about fourteen layers Moreover, these firmly installed ceilings have been built to put on top of them about 2 million tons of stone, so there is no problem with its design yet.