Northern Mazghuna Pyramid

29.4583°N, 31.2167°E.

Late Twelfth- or early Thirteenth-Dynasty pyramid at Mazghuna, attributed in some sources to queen Sobekneferu (c. 1806–1802 BCE), the last ruler of the Twelfth Dynasty and the first attested woman pharaoh, but with no inscriptional evidence to confirm the attribution. Original base approximately 53 metres per side; original height unrecovered. Excavated by Ernest Mackay in 1910. The substructure is a smaller and simplified version of the Hawara template, with a quartzite burial chamber and sliding roof accessed by a corridor system with multiple portcullises. The superstructure was either stripped or never completed; the foundations of the mortuary temple are unfinished. Sobekneferu is documented from headless statues, fragmentary inscriptions, and the king lists, but no royal tomb has ever been securely identified to her — Mazghuna North remains a candidate.

The northern of the two Mazghuna pyramids, possibly built for the woman who closed the dynasty, in a structure that — like its likely owner — left almost no trace of itself in the official record.