The joint Egyptian-German mission discovered 8 storerooms inside Sahure’s Pyramid in Abusir Necropolis

Mostafa Waziri Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) explained that this unprecedented discovery sheds the light on the interior design and architecture of Sahure’s Pyramid that belong to King Sahure who was the  second king of the Fifth Dynasty and the first king to be buried in Abusir.

 

 

Egyptologist Mohamed Ismail Khaled head of the joint Egyptian-German mission explained that the  team managed during the restoration process to know the original dimensions and layout of the antechamber. 

 

“Despite that the eastern wall of the antechamber was severely damaged, and only the north-eastern corner and 0.30 m of the eastern wall were still detectable, the mission was able to find traces of a low passage that was previously detected by British explorer John Perring in 1836, so this discovery proved that Perring’s previous observation was correct.”

 

 Khaled recounted that the eight storerooms were uncovered after removing all the rubble in the passage.

Khaled added that although the northern and southern parts of the storeroom's area, the ceiling and the original floor were all badly damaged, the remnants of the original walls and parts of the floor can still be noticed.

The head of the joint Egyptian-German mission added that the mission documented each magazine's layout and dimensions, and this helped them much to understand the pyramid's interior design.

 

Khaled further explained that the state-of-the-art technology, including the 3D laser scanning, helped the Egyptian-German mission to discover everything related to the pyramid and map its external and internal areas.