Senusret III was a pharaoh of Egypt. He ruled from 1878 BC to 1841 BC, and was the fifth monarch of the Twelfth Dynasty. His pyramid was constructed at Dahshur. Hieroglyphs are a system of writing used by the Ancient Egyptians, using a combination of logographic, syllabic, and alphabetic elements. ... copied from http://fi. ... copied from http://fi. ... copied from http://fi. ... copied from http://fi. ... This article refers to the historical Pharaoh. ... The chronology of the Twelfth dynasty is the most stable of any period before the New Kingdom. ... Dahshur (Arabic دهشور Dahšūr [often incorrectly rendered in English as Dashur]), located in a patch of desert on the west bank of the Nile approximately 40 kilometres south of Cairo, is a royal necropolis, known chiefly for three pyramids, two of which are amongst the oldest, largest and best preserved...
SesostrisIII was the son and successor of Sesostris II.
According to Manetho, SesostrisIII ruled for 48 years, but it is likely that this high number combines the length of his reign with that of his predecessor(s).
SesostrisIII built his funerary monument, a mudbrick pyramid encased in limestone of about 60 meters high, in Dashur, not far from the pyramid of his grandfather, Amenemhat II.
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