Bent & Red Pyramids

Top pic is of the Bent Pyramid built in about 4600 BC by the son of the pharoh who built the Step Pyramid. It is "bent" because the architects realized after completing about 2/3s of the pyramid that the original angle was too steep and had to be changed. So the angle was changed & the Bent Pyramid was born.

The Bent Pyramid builder did not like the Bent Pyramid and demanded his architects to build another made of red granite which is now known as the Red Pyramid - bottom pic. This is the first true pyramid built in Misr (what Egyptians call their country) & the only one built of granite. In the end, this is the only Pharoh who had 2 pyramids built and, ironically they are not sure which if either he is entombed <-- no one has ever found his burial chamber! The pharaohs who built the Giza pyramids almost 200 years later copied the Red Pyramid's design.