Leaning Pyramid of Dashur, treasure of ancient Egypt

Dashur is the southernmost tip of the vast necropolis of Memphis, whose point further north consists of the city of Giza. However, the relationship that binds Dashur and Giza is not just the big city from which formed part: actually, it is said that the pyramids of Dashur, both very peculiar, were the predecessors of the famous pyramids of Giza, today symbol the former Egyptian empire.

Dashur is the home of a single pyramid construction throughout Egypt. Known as the Pyramid-leaning but has also received other verbal, as demolished, false or diamond-was built by Snofru, a pharaoh who was awarded the building of many monuments of antiquity.

Obviously, this pyramid gets its name from the particular way in which their sides change their angle towards the middle of construction. It was the first of those erected by Snofru, which continued experimenting with the Egyptian architecture: it was he who devised the first step pyramid, which is in Meidum.

The interior of the Pyramid Leaning is no less curious that his outward appearance. For a start, is the only one with two entries is known: one north, the other west. For the first accesses a corridor that leads to a downward antechamber; about it, is the burial chamber.

The western entry gives way to a road that descends a few metres and then catches its horizontally. Originally blocked by stones, this corridor leads to a second funerary chamber, which is higher than the first.

An internal corridor unites both chambers, and so far is a mystery why it took Snofru to build a pyramid with two cameras-Naos mortuary-but if we are guided by the particularities of all its buildings, it is not hard to believe that it was a Pharaonic over their eccentricities.