The Pyramid of Menkaure is the smallest of the three main Pyramids of Giza, located on the Giza Plateau in the southwestern outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. It is thought to have been built to serve as the tomb of the fourth dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Menkaure. The first sixteen courses of the exterior were made of red granite.
View on the Pyramid of Khafre with the Funerary Temple of the Pyramid of Menkaure in the foreground. The Pyramid of Menkaure is the smallest of the three main Pyramids of Giza, located on the Giza Plateau in the southwestern outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. It is thought to have been built to serve as the tomb of the fourth dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Menkaure.
The Queens Pyramids of Menkaure, three small queens pyramids are situated to the south side of the pyramid and, like the other repositories, they were never finished. It has been advised that the biggest and Nearly complete of these belonged to Menkaure's important wife Khamerenebti II. The Pyramid of Menkaure is the smallest of the three main Pyramids of Giza, located on the Giza Plateau in the southwestern outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. It is thought to have been built to serve as the tomb of the fourth dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Menkaure.
