The Pyramid of Senusret II at Lahun in Egypt, Fayoum

Sesostris II decided to build his pyramid, called Sesostris shines, near the modern city Lahun (Kahun) in the opening of the basin Hawara, near the Fayoum, and not in Dahshur, where his father (Amenemhat II) of the pyramid. First been investigated by the Mission of Lepsius in the 1840s, but only then discussed in detail by Petrie.
Site Senusret II valley temple is known, but there are no plans to ground can be made from the wreckage. The road is also in ruins, but must have been huge, and completely destroyed mortuary temple on the eastern side of the pyramid, all that is known is that it must be built in front of the granite, from the few remaining fragments.

In building this pyramid Senusret II architects took advantage of the natural log of yellow limestone that was cut into four basic steps to configure the base of the pyramid. Mud brick used in building the upper part of the essence, as has happened before a series of pyramids, suites built these walls to the core and casual wards were built to form a frame. Sections resulting from a full brick clay. Also as a breed before 12 pyramids, and the room is in a trench and laid the foundation at the base of the pyramid. Most of the deck is to build a temple of Ramses II, and despite the fact that parts of the black granite pyrami set on the top of the pyramid were found. There was also a drainage ditch full of gravel around the pyramid, which was filled with sand to channel rainwater.
While the pyramid had been robbed in antiquity, but it took months for Petrie is the entrance to this pyramid. The reason is that for the first time, the builder was more interested in the integrity of religious traditions and then concealed the step to enter on the pavement of the courtyard of the pyramid, near the eastern tip of the southern side of the pyramid. Prior to this, almost all the entrances to the pyramid in the center north. This is because in the astral religion and the ancient heavenly kingdom, and the king of the grave to the north, where he himself had to become a star and deity. However, due to a rise in the worship of Osiris, and this has become less important, and was more important to the tomb to resemble the underworld of Osiris.

Ground Plan of the Pyramid of Senusret II at Lahun in Egypt
It is interesting, and the builders of the pyramid, may have thought that insurance would be sufficient to prevent thieves, since not even include a barrier in the entrance hall. Also, interestingly, is "the church entrance is at the entrance or on the north side of the pyramid (this is also often called" North Chapels. ") Is in the middle of the eastern wall of the pyramid. However, there was in fact the north chapel, though smaller and less structurally similar to an old church from the north after the entrance to the Church on the eastern side of the pyramid.
And jumped the entrance hall was too narrow for the coffin and the large blocks used to line the funeral chamber, even though another entrance was hidden in the far south, under the ramp to the tomb of the unknown princess. This link is about 16 meters (52 feet) deep, and hostility in the bottom leads to less formal input shaft of the lobby. Room has a vaulted ceiling and specialized in the eastern end of the hall containing the ritual well, down which did not materialize. Down at least for ground water. Because the axes of the ritual is not clear until much later, and some Egyptologists claim that the shaft was constructed to monitor groundwater, or for purposes unknown.
After the entrance hall to hall rise gradually before passing through the camera to the left, and finally to the waiting room. In the waiting room, and infrastructure has a 90-degree left turn, through a short corridor to the burial chamber, located in the south-eastern quarter of the pyramid. Burial chamber, lined with granite and a gable roof. On the coffin of red granite occupies the western edge of the camera. Before there was a marble table offerings.
From the southeastern corner of the burial chamber of the short hallway leads to a small side room where they found the bones of the leg, presumably to the king. In the northwest corner at the top of the sarcophagus is the entrance to the passage in a circle around the burial chamber of the gate in the short corridor between the waiting room and the burial chamber. Stadelmann believes that this strange passage in the north provided a symbolic break with the spirit of the king. But it also creates a symbolic Island Metro can be linked to Osiris, which grew by 12 families of worship.
The wall, such as Jeddah, Sesostris I, was a box of limestone with windows reminiscent of Djoser complex. This was the revival of the ancient funerary enclosures. Another strong influence of the Osiris, and forests "that surrounds the" hill "represented, from a row of trees planted around the outer wall was covered with mud brick.

In addition to the tombs of the princesses in the southeast, between the pyramid and the northern part of the wall, was built eight terraces of brick to cover the meta-carved in the rock, similar to the way in which the pyramid was built. And a small pyramid is located at the north end of this row of the Master, which is believed to be the queen. If there is a Queen of the pyramid, the pyramid of worship, but it is unlikely, it would be the last of its kind structure built in the place of his grandfather, Sesostris I. Although the pyramid has a small church in the north, Petrie was not found in the structure under the ground, even after a thorough investigation. The only evidence we have that the pyramid of a lady is located within the compound and a partial name of the ship and found in the warehouse Foundation Petrie.
To the west of the shaft of the pyramid Petrie discovered the ruins of the tomb of Princess Sathathoriunet (Sithathoriunet), where he discovered the famous treasure of this site, which included magnificent jewelry and other equipment from the funeral. These items include a crown of gold, and a necklace of gold leopard heads of small, two pectorial decorated with gold and precious stones, one of which was inscribed with the name Sesostris II and the second with the name of Amenemhat III. There were other bracelets, rings, obsidian and alabaster were decorated with gold, which can be found today in the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo.
Perimeter to the north-west of the ruins of the pyramid of the city that grew around the building the pyramid of Sesostris II. Sesostris Hotep Coriginally name, which means "May peace be Senusret. It provided a great deal of information to Egyptologists on the lives of Egyptians in the reconstruction. This old town is now known as Lahun or Kahun, after the local village nearby.
• Length: 48.65m
• Base: 107M
• Inclination: 42 º 35 '