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The Pyramid of Seila is one of a group of seven small step pyramids which are very similar to one another, along with the Edfu South Pyramid, the Pyramid of Elephantine, the Pyramid of El-Kula, the Pyramid of Naqada, the Pyramid of Saujet el-Meitin, and the Pyramid of Sinki. These pyramids were all built far from the major centres of Egypt and very little is known about them. The pyramid is located on an outcrop between the Faiyum Oasis and the Nile valley, about 6 km north of the motorway from Wasta to Faiyum. Its builder may have been Snefru, the founder of the Fourth dynasty. It was discovered in 1889/1890 by Flinders Petrie and revisited in 1898 by Ludwig Borchardt.