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Bent Pyramid
Partway up, the Bent Pyramid changes angle: about 54–55° below, 43° above roughly 47 m.
The ministry says instability forced the bend, yet no deformation has been found. How could a precaution and a failure be told apart in the stone?
Photo: lienyuan lee, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons