25/04/2020
The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities is to launch tonight at 8:00 pm a new virtual tour for
โโThe Funerary Complex of King Unas.
The tour will be posted on the ministryโs official website and social media platforms.
โโThe tonightโs tour is for the Funerary Complex of King Unas (c.โช2375โ2345โฌ BC), the last king of the Fifth Dynasty. It contains all the components of the royal funerary complex of the Old Kingdom. It includes the valley temple, mortuary temple, the causeway connecting them, and the pyramid itself. The entrance to the pyramid is located on its north side. A descending corridor leads to a hall, then to a horizontal gallery ending in an antechamber with three small magazines on its left. On the right is the burial chamber, which contains the oldest known Pyramid Texts. These are religious inscriptions that helped the deceased king in his resurrection and guide him to reach the sun god Ra in the sky.
โโThe mortuary temple, dedicated to the performance of religious rituals for the king after his death, is located on the east side of the pyramid. It contains a court with columns, the sanctuary, the altar, and a number of magazines.
โโFrom 1899 to 1903, excavations took place in the area surrounding the pyramid, which led to the discovery of numerous shaft tombs from the Twentysixth (664โ525 BC) and Twentyseventh Dynasties (525โ404 BC), as well as the tomb of King Hetepsekhemwy, the founder of the Second Dynasty (c.2890 BC), which lies directly beneath the mortuary temple. This tomb consists of a 50meterlong corridor sculpted in the rock that has 80 storage rooms on its left and right.
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