Pyramid of Meidum

The Meidum pyramid lies close to the entrance to el-Faiyum, about 50km south of Dashur on the western edge of the cultivated area where it becomes desert.
The monument was originally ascribed to the king Huni, who ruled for around fourteen years at the end of Dynasty III – primarily because he had no other pyramid in his name. The current archaeological thought is that it was probably built by Snefru, Huni’s son and successor and the first king of Dynasty IV, although Huni may have laid the foundations. There is no record of Huni at all in the structure but Petrie found several blocks with grafitti giving the date of Snefru’s 17th year of reign. There is also a Dynasty XVIII grafitti naming Snefru in a passage and chamber of the mortuary temple.