Abusir
Abusir is the name given to an Egyptian archaeological locality on the desert plateau 10 km south of Giza and 8 km north of Saqqara. About 35 km south of the Egyptian capital Cairo, Abusir is the site of a compact pyramid field, with pyramids and funerary temples dating mainly from the 5th Dynasty of the Old Kingdom.Photo: Aoswch, CC BY-SA 2.0 de.
Photo: Kurohito, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Pyramid of Djoser
The pyramid of Djoser, sometimes called the Step Pyramid of Djoser, is an archaeological site in the Saqqara necropolis, Egypt, northwest of the ruins of Memphis.Pyramid of Neferirkare
Photo: Neithsabes, Public domain.
The pyramid of Neferirkare was built for the Fifth Dynasty pharaoh Neferirkare Kakai in the 25th century BC.
Pyramid of Unas
Photo: Roweromaniak, CC BY-SA 2.5 pl.
The pyramid of Unas is a smooth-sided pyramid built in the 24th century BC for the Egyptian pharaoh Unas, the ninth and final king of the Fifth Dynasty.
Localities in the Area
Saqqara
Saqqara is the name given both to a village 32 km to the south of the Egyptian capital of Cairo and…Abusir
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: village in Giza Governorate, Egypt
- Categories: necropolis, village, village in Egypt, historic site, tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Giza Governorate, Lower Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
29.8833° or 29° 52' 60" northLongitude
31.2099° or 31° 12' 36" eastElevation
34 metres (112 feet)Open Location Code
7GXHV6M5+8XOpenStreetMap ID
way 246010720OpenStreetMap Feature
historic=archaeological_siteGeoNames ID
362069Wikidata ID
Q336098Abusir Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Aboesir
- Arabic: أبو صير
- Arabic: أبو صير، الجيزة
- Basque: Abusir
- Breton: Abousir
- Catalan: Abusir
- Catalan: Abusir al-Melek
- Catalan: Abusir al Melek
- Cebuano: Ahrāmāt Abū Şīr
- Chinese: 阿布希爾
- Chinese: 阿布西尔
- Chinese: 阿西尔
- Croatian: Abusir
- Czech: Abúsír
- Dutch: Aboesir
- Dutch: Abusir
- Egyptian Arabic: ابو صير
- Egyptian Arabic: بوصير
- Esperanto: Abusir
- Finnish: Abusir
- Finnish: Abusirin pyramidit
- French: Abousir
- Georgian: აბუსირი
- German: Abousir
- German: Abu Sir
- German: Abusir
- German: Abū Şīr
- German: Abū Ṣīr
- German: Pyramidenkomplex von Abū Ṣīr
- Greek: Αμπουσίρ
- Hebrew: אבו סיר
- Hungarian: Abu-Szír
- Indonesian: Abusir
- Irish: Abusir
- Italian: Abu Sir
- Italian: Abusir
- Japanese: アブシール
- Japanese: アブ・シール
- Kirghiz: Абусир
- Korean: 아부시르
- Lithuanian: Abusiras
- Macedonian: Абусир
- Malay: Abusir
- Norwegian: Abusir
- Norwegian Bokmål: Abusir
- Occitan (post 1500): Per Osir
- Persian: ابوصیر
- Persian: ابو صیر
- Polish: Abusir
- Portuguese: Abusir
- Russian: Абусир
- Russian: Бузирис
- Serbo-Croatian: Abusir
- Slovak: Abúsír
- Slovenian: Abusir
- Spanish: Abu Sir
- Spanish: Abusir
- Spanish: Abu sir
- Spanish: Busiris (Egipto Medio)
- Swedish: Abusir
- Tamil: அபுசிர்
- Ukrainian: Абусір-ель-Мелек
- Ukrainian: Абусір
- Vietnamese: Abusir
- Abu Sîr Pyramids
- Abusîr
- Ahramat Abu Sir
- Busiris
Other Places Named Abusir
Localities in the Area
- Abu SirVillage
- Ahramat Abu SirLocality
- Abo Sir VillageNeighbourhood
- Temple of the SunLocality
- Abu GirabLocality
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Abusir. Photo: Kurohito, CC BY-SA 3.0.