File:The Red Pyramid (14795035995).jpg
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English: The Red Pyramid, along with the Bent Pyramid, was closed to tourists for many years because of a nearby army camp. It is now usually open for tourists and a somewhat intrusive ventilation has been installed which pipes air down the entrance shaft to the interior chambers.
Visitors climb steps cut in or built over the stones of the pyramid to an entrance high on the north side. A passage, 3 feet (0.91 m) in height and 4 feet (1.2 m) wide, slopes down at 27° for 200 feet (61 m) to a short horizontal passage leading into a chamber whose corbelled roof is 40 feet (12 m) high and rises in eleven steps. At the southern end of the chamber, but offset to the west, another short horizontal passage leads into the second chamber. This passage was probably closed at one time and the offset was a measure intended to confuse potential robbers. The second chamber is similar to the first and lies directly beneath the apex of the pyramid. High in the southern wall of the chamber is an entrance, now reached by a large wooden staircase built for the convenience of tourists. This gives onto a short horizontal passage that leads to the third and final chamber with a corbelled roof 50 feet (15 m) high. The first two chambers have their long axis aligned north-south, but this chamber's long axis is aligned east-west. Unlike the first two chambers, which have fine smooth floors on the same level as the passages, the floor of the third chamber is very rough and sunk below the level of the access passage. It is believed that this is the work of robbers searching for treasure in what is thought to have been the burial chamber of the pyramid [Wikipedia.org] |
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Source | The Red Pyramid |
Author | Jorge Láscar from Melbourne, Australia |
Camera location | 29° 48′ 36″ N, 31° 12′ 22.8″ E | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 29.810000; 31.206333 |
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Camera manufacturer | Apple |
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Camera model | iPhone 4S |
Exposure time | 1/1,842 sec (0.000542888165038) |
F-number | f/2.4 |
ISO speed rating | 64 |
Date and time of data generation | 14:08, 12 September 2012 |
Lens focal length | 4.28 mm |
Latitude | 29° 48′ 36″ N |
Longitude | 31° 12′ 22.8″ E |
Altitude | 27 meters above sea level |
Orientation | Rotated 90° CCW |
Horizontal resolution | 72 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 72 dpi |
Software used | 5.1.1 |
File change date and time | 14:08, 12 September 2012 |
Y and C positioning | Centered |
Exposure Program | Normal program |
Exif version | 2.21 |
Date and time of digitizing | 14:08, 12 September 2012 |
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APEX aperture | 2.5260688216893 |
APEX brightness | 10.162060301508 |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Flash | Flash did not fire, compulsory flash suppression |
Supported Flashpix version | 1 |
Color space | sRGB |
Sensing method | One-chip color area sensor |
Exposure mode | Auto exposure |
White balance | Auto white balance |
Focal length in 35 mm film | 35 mm |
Scene capture type | Standard |
Sharpness | Normal |
GPS time (atomic clock) | 12:08:57.19 |
Reference for direction of image | True direction |
Direction of image | 192.38046272494 |