Abu Rawash

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Abu Roasch ( Abu Rawash or Abu Rowasch; Arabic أبو رواش, DMG Abū RAWA ) is a village in Lower Egypt near the Egyptian capital Cairo. The place is known for the nearby ancient Egyptian necropolis.

Structures

On the southern outskirts of the village there is a large adobe building, which Lepsius I- pyramid. You could still be associated with any Pharaoh. In the mid-19th century 17 -meter-high walls were still there, but they are now largely gone down to the natural rock core with the grave chamber. The crumbling mud bricks, which are called in Arabic Sebach were brought by the farmers as fertilizer on the fields.

2 km west of the town and about 8 km northwest of the Giza pyramids on the eastern edge of the desert is a rocky plateau, which rises about 130 m above the plane. Here are the Pyramid of Cheops successor Radjedef ( Djedefre ) and tombs of his officials. The site is called by archaeologists Abu Roasch and is one of the cemeteries of Memphis.

The Radjedef pyramid was built of limestone and can still be seen from the Nile. It is unclear how far it was completed. Today the heavily damaged ruins are only 11 m high. In the pyramid complex also contains the remains of one each of worship and a queen's pyramid. In the environment of the Pyramid district numerous statues of the king and one of the oldest Sphinx statues were found.

Excavation of the grave chamber of the pyramid Radjedef

Illustration of the ruins of Lepsius pyramid -I (1842 )

Approximately 1.5 km east of the Radjedef pyramid situated above the village on a spur of the desert plateau, a necropolis with large mastabas of the Old Kingdom. Further south, on a rock back there are tombs of the 1st to the 4th Dynasty.