The pyramid Amenemhet III at Hawara

The last powerful ruler of the Twelfth dynasty, Amenmehet III built two pyramids, one at Dashur, The Black Pyramid, and a second pyramid here at near the town of Hawara el-Makta, deep in the Fayum, not far from Senwosret II's pyramid at Il-Lahun. Some Egyptologist believe that because of structural problems with his pyramid at Dahshur, Amenemhet II decided to build another pyramid in the Fayum, which was very important during the middle kingdom. IN 1843, Lepsius attempted to enter the pyramid, and forty years later Luigi attempted again, but Petrie was the first to enter it, in 1889. Collaborating with Wainright and MacKay, Petrie investigated, in several stages, not only the pyramid but also the huge temple complex at its foot., whose extend and splendid construction had already so fascinated the travelers and writers of antiquity that they called it the labyrinth. The pyramid - called Amenemhet Lives - was built in the traditional Twelfth way, that is, a mudbrick core and a casing of fine white limestone. The entrance into the substructure was placed directly in the casing, on the south side of the pyramid, very close to the southeast corner.. There a descending corridor with a stairway led north.. It was sheathed with limestone and provided with barriers, and underground it turned several times around the pyramids axis before before finally reaching the burial chamber. The sarcophagus originally weight some 100 tons, made of quartzite. Today the entry is flooded, thus inaccessible. Petrie found the remains if a wooden coffin, as well as an alabaster sacrifice table bearing the name of princess Neferuptah, one of Amenemhet III"s daughters . It was initially thought that Neferuptah had been buried with her father, which was not unusual in the Twelfth dynasty as it had been in the Old Kingdom. In the mid-1950's, however, Naquib Farag unearthed, about two kilometers southeast of the king's pyramid, the remains of an almost completely destroyed pyramid that the famed Egyptian Archeologist Labib Habashi had already located in 1936.. The inscription on the pink granite sarcophagus found in the burial chamber bore, to the great surprise of archeologist, the name of princess Neferuptah. Her name was also found on other objects from her burial equipment discovered in the burial chamber.Egyptologist are at a loss to explain as to why Princess Neferuptah seems to be buried in two places.