Archaeologists have uncovered a number of previously undocumented storage rooms within Egyptian pharaoh Sahura’s pyramid that may hold treasures from ancient royals.
As part of a conservation and restoration project, Egyptologists, led by Mohamed Ismail Khaled from Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) in Germany, have been cleaning the interior rooms and stabilising the pyramid from inside, preventing it from further collapse.
In the process, they have uncovered the pyramid’s burial chambers, which had previously been inaccessible.
The new yet-to-be peer-reviewed findings shed fresh light on the architecture of the pyramid of Sahura, who was the second king of the Fifth Dynasty (2400 BC) and the first to be buried at the ancient Egyptian archaeological pyramid complex Abusir.
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“Abusir is the name of an elaborate burial area in Egypt, dotted with 19 pyramids and other temples, stretching on the western side of the Nile from the south of the Giza Plateau to the northern rim of Saqqara,” researchers explained in the 2022 study.
During their restoration work, archaeologists found the original dimensions, and could uncover the floor plan of the antechamber, which had deteriorated over time.
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