what was the bent pyramid built for
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Bent Pyramid is an ancient Egyptian pyramid located at the royal necropolis of Dahshur, approximately 40 kilometres south of Cairo, built under the Old Kingdom Pharaoh Sneferu (c. 2600 BC).A unique example of early pyramid development in Egypt, this was the second pyramid built by Sneferu.he ancient formal name of the Bent Pyramid is generally translated as (The)-Southern-Shining-Pyramid, or Sneferu-(is)-Shining-in-the-South. Comparison of approximate profiles of Bent Pyramid with some notable pyramidal or near-pyramidal buildings.