Pyramid of Nyuserre

29.8975°N, 31.2050°E.

Pyramid of Niuserre at Abusir, sixth pharaoh of the fifth dynasty (~2445 BCE), son of Neferirkare and brother of Neferefre. Original height 51 metres on a 79-metre square base; current height 24 metres after collapse and robbery. The mortuary temple is unusual: its layout was constrained by the need to share a causeway with the earlier Neferirkare pyramid, producing a non-standard right-angle bend in the causeway. The temple's open court was decorated with red granite columns shaped as palm trunks; one of these columns now stands in the British Museum. Niuserre also built the Sun Temple of Niuserre at Abu Gurob, 4 km north — one of the six known fifth-dynasty sun temples, with a 36-metre obelisk that rose above an enormous offering altar.

Niuserre built the only Old Kingdom pyramid whose causeway makes a right-angle bend — and built a separate sun temple a few kilometres north, with an obelisk almost twice the height of his pyramid's casing courses.