Images and credits
Photographs and historical illustrations, with source links, authorship, licences and details of any visual processing.
Menkaure’s Pyramid at Giza
kallerna · 2010
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The Pyramid of (Menkaure)
Sarbast.T.Hameed · 2016-08-14
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Menkaure's pyramid, unfinished stones
WLU; Commons cleanup by JMCC1 · 2009-12-21
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British Museum Egypt 007
Einsamer Schütze · 2011-07-21
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Qaitbay, Alexandria: submerged architecture
Ashraf Hussein · 2014 (figure caption)
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Heracles from the Antikythera wreck, NAM Γ 5742
Deiadameian · 2024-03-23
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Original architectural Plate I: Plans and Sections of Passages in the Third Pyramid
Historical plate published in Vyse, Operations II · 1840
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Original architectural Plate II: Small Ante-room and Portcullis in the Third Pyramid
Historical plate published in Vyse, Operations II · 1840
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Original architectural Plate III: Plans and Sections of Apartments in the Third Pyramid
Historical plate published in Vyse, Operations II · 1840
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Historical plates
Elevations, sections and plan. The title explicitly states “with lid restored”.
Vyse, Operations, II (1840), inserted plate; Princeton / HathiTrust scan njp.32101073396473, digital leaf 131.
Read the source record ↗Historical illustration, public domain. Princeton / HathiTrust scan. The homepage uses a cropped detail of the burial-chamber plate; the complete image and original PDF remain available.
Historical depiction of the lower burial chamber; not a modern photograph.
Vyse, Operations, II (1840), inserted plate; Princeton / HathiTrust scan njp.32101073396473, digital leaf 128.
Read the source record ↗Historical illustration, public domain. Princeton / HathiTrust scan. The homepage uses a cropped detail of the burial-chamber plate; the complete image and original PDF remain available.
Historical depiction of the large upper chamber. Captioned “Third Pyramid”; preserved in the supplied volume extract.
Vyse, Operations, II (1840), inserted plate; Princeton / HathiTrust scan njp.32101073396473, digital leaf 135.
Read the source record ↗Historical illustration, public domain. Princeton / HathiTrust scan. The homepage uses a cropped detail of the burial-chamber plate; the complete image and original PDF remain available.
The surviving stone fragment: six photographs
Official museum photographs of the same stone fragment, each identified by its image asset number.
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These photographs of fragment EA6646 were taken by the British Museum at the request of the author of this archive. We thank the Museum for its assistance in documenting the surviving fragment.