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The pyramid, built for Pharaoh Sneferu around 2,600 BC, looks different to Egypt's most famous pyramids, which have straight sides. Instead, the angles of its sides change, giving it its bent appearance. According to the BBC , the 331-foot (101-meter) pyramid was supposed to have the regular shape, but its creators had to make some adjustments as they were building on soft clay that didn't provide a stable foundation. Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, told Reuters that cracks began to appear as a result while the pyramid was being built. To compensate, they changed the angle from 54 degrees – the angle of a normal pyramid's sides – to 43 degrees. Its shape is unusual, but it was an important step in the construction of Egypt's pyramids, bridging the gap between the earlier structures, which had stepped sides, and the later pyramids with their straight angled sides, like the Great Pyramid of Giza. ...