Menkauhor’s Pyramid Discovered
Secretary General of the SCA, Zahi Hawass stated that it was thought to belong to fifth Dynasty King Menkauhor who ruled from 2444 B.C. to 2436 B.C. (not to be confused with fourth Dynasty King Menkare who’s pyramid is one of the three Giza pyramids).
Menkauhor was a relatively obscure King and was the last pharaoh to build a sun temple - called Akhet-Re.
There is evidence in the form of Old Kingdom administrative records at Abusir that suggest Menkauhor completed his pyramid complex which was called Ntry-iswt-Mn-kw-hr. His funerary cult is believed to have been operational long after he died.
…additional information from a translation by Andie:
“A team of Egyptian experts have discovered the remains of a pyramid which has been covered with sand since the nineteenth dynasty (read ‘nineteenth century’) in the necropolis of Saqqara, 20km southeast of Cairo. The announcement was made by Zahi Hawass, the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in a communication in which he said that the pyramid is located by the side of the Pharaoh Teti, the first monarch of the Sixth Dynasty. The remains of the pyramid were first mentioned by Karl Richard Lepsius. Recent excavations have revealed the entrance, walls, funerary chamber and a piece of a granite sarcophagus. It is not known to whom the burial belonged but Hawass is speculating that it belonged to Menkauhor Kaiyu, who reigned during the Fifth Dynasty.”
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