The Meidum Pyramid Located more than 70 km south of modern Cairo, the Faiyum (Shedet) district, Middle Egypt, west of the river Nile, northeast Africa. Faiyum saw habitation from the fifth millennium BC, it was a significant centre of the god Sebek-Raand, a strategic city of the Old Kingdom and one of Egypt's oldest cities during the time of Kemet. East to Faiyum, on the outskirts of an arid desert strip, a short distance before the landscape changes to the lush agricultural landscape that surrounds the river Nile, stands the Meidum pyramid - positioned as the most southerly Old Kingdom pyramid. Its unique silhouette, square, and tower-like shape have aroused curiosity for centuries, thus, difficulties associated with its attribution. Today it has the appearance of a truncated tower surrounded at its base by a huge mound of destruction - characterized by a pair of broad horizontal bands of roughly worked masonry, the pyramid appears to stand on a low isolated hill - an accumulation of debris. Perhaps the result of the removal of significant proportions of masonry from the structure, that this dilapidation had led to the exposure of sections of masonry that the builders had never intended to be viewed and which had not therefore been dressed or cased. Other theories argued that the collapse of the Meidum occurred during construction. Historically the consensus within Egyptology appears to be that the Meidum pyramid was entirely the work of Snefru (snfr-wj) the founder of the Fourth Dynasty. Behind a list of shafts and chambers, the inner centre of the pyramid reveals a corbelled space, the burial chamber, which seemed ripped from its original attributes. In many ways, Meidum is the most mysterious of all the great pyramids..adding to the aura of ancient Kemet and its civilization before the late era when it became known as Egypt. #africantypology #africanarchitecture #africaarchitecture #adjayeafricaarchitecture #adjayeresearch #adjayeafrica #africaarchitecturecultureandidentity #africa