Buried Pyramid in Saqqara, Egypt – Pyramid of King Sekhemkhet – Egyptian Tombs
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Buried Pyramid Facts
The buried pyramid, also known locally and internationally as the Sekhemkhet Pyramid.
It is an unfinished pyramid building that was built around 2645 BC. This building belonged to King Sekhemkhet..
This pharaoh was the second of the most famous Egyptian Pharaohs kings of the Third Dynasty of Egypt Old Kingdom of Egypt, which ruled Egypt approximately between 2686-2613 BC, and this period is usually described as falling at the beginning of the Old Kingdom..
It was also believed by many, many historians that the rulers and kings of the Third Dynasty had played an undeniably important role in the successful transition from the Predynastic Period “Naqada III” and the era of the early Egyptian dynasties, the Dynasty 0 and the Dynasty 00, to suddenly turn again into the era of the pyramids..
Of course, it is possible to visit that pyramid, but despite that, the public is never allowed to access its private base or the infrastructure to discover The Secrets of Pyramid Construction and what is the Curse of the Pharaohs associated with them..
Who is Sekhemkhet?
In fact, King Sekhemkhet, the owner of that pyramid or the one named after him, was also at the same time the successor of King Djoser in power, and he was the one who had already been buried in the Pyramid of Djoser and The Southern Tomb in King Djoser funeral complex..
As the buried pyramid that we are talking about now was originally designed to be built in the same style or shape as the step pyramid of Djoser was built, to discover the extent of the development of the art of Sculpture in Ancient Egypt and the engineering of Architecture in ancient Egypt.
It is also located hundreds of meters long in the southwest of the country..
It can also be said then that the buried pyramid was originally designed to surpass the cup and grandeur of the step pyramid of Djoser but despite that thought it had barely reached ground level and so it was given this name which is the name of the buried pyramid.
It is also believed that the incompleteness of this pyramid is due to the special paragraph in the rule of King Sekhemkhet, which was the shortest rule in ancient Egypt if we talk about him becoming the ruler of the country “Ancient Egyptian Government“, which barely reached about six years and obtaining the Coronation of the Pharaohs.
The archaeological history of that buried pyramid
In fact, this buried ancient pyramid was originally an incomplete or unknown building structure, and that was before in ancient times.
And it continued like this until the Egyptology Dr. Zakaria Ghoneim noticed that strange rectangular shape in the desert.
This was during the periods he spent excavating in the area of the Pyramid of Unas complex, “which was built during the era of king Unas of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt,” who died relatively close to him in 1951..
A tightly closed wall was discovered, consisting of three parts, which at the time of their discovery were rubble, but through the continuation of the excavation operations in that area and even down to its bottom, it was found that its length was approximately 5.2 m, equivalent to 17 feet inches, and its thickness was approximately 18 m, equivalent to (60 feet).).
Burial chamber discovered
In fact, when the humpbacked wall of the buried pyramid was breached, on May 31, 1954, the burial chamber of that great archaeological chamber had been discovered, which was at the same time an unfinished or undecorated chamber..
Inside, there was that ancient pharaonic Ancient Egyptian Coffins made of marble, the most famous of the Ancient Egyptian Metallurgy, which was cut from only one block with a vertical lid that seemed to be still closed.
After intense attempts by scientists and workers to open the lid of that coffin, it was found empty..
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