During excavations and restoration work, archaeologists have discovered previously unknown chambers in the pyramid of Sahura in Egypt. These were probably storage areas intended for royal grave goods.
An Egyptian-German mission led by Egyptologist Mohamed Ismail Khaled of the Chair of Egyptology at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (JMU) found the rooms during conservation and restoration work aimed at securing the pyramid’s substructure, the JMU reported on his website.
It is said that storage areas have been discovered that were previously not accessible and documented. The discovery sheds new light on the architecture of the pyramid of Sahuras, the second king of the Fifth Dynasty (2400 BC) and the first king to be buried in Abusir.
Egyptologists suspected as early as 1836 that there were even more rooms
Traces of a passage, such as the British Egyptologist John Perring had discovered in 1836, were also discovered, but it was full of rubble and could not be entered. He had already suspected at the time that the corridor could lead to even more rooms. This assumption now turned out to be correct. According to the JMU, a total of eight new, previously unknown chambers have been discovered.
The northern and southern parts of these storage areas, particularly the ceiling and original floors, have been severely damaged, but remnants of the original walls and parts of the floor can still be seen, the scientists report. According to the JMU, the find provides new insights into the development of the pyramid construction.
The Sahura Pyramid is the first pyramid built in the Abusir Necropolis. Their construction created a standard type of pyramid building, which was only slightly modified towards the end of the 6th Dynasty. It is especially important for the numerous well-preserved reliefs that decorated the valley and the mortuary temples and the walls of the path.
Source: Krone
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