Pyramid of Behenu

29.8691°N, 31.2196°E.

Sixth-Dynasty queen's pyramid at South Saqqara within the Pepi I funerary complex, built for Queen Behenu — King's Wife of either Pepi I or Pepi II, with both attributions argued in the literature. Construction date approximately 2290 BCE. Excavated by the French mission at Saqqara from 2007 onward. Original base 26 metres per side; original height around 16 metres — the second largest queen's pyramid in the complex after Ankhesenpepi II. The substructure preserved one of the most complete late-Sixth-Dynasty Pyramid Text sequences known from a queen's burial, with 1,521 inscribed columns of hieroglyphs across the antechamber and burial chamber walls. A pink granite sarcophagus inscribed with her name and royal titles was found broken open in antiquity. Whether she was a senior wife of Pepi I added to the cemetery decades after his death, or a wife of his grandson Pepi II, the texts on her walls cannot decide.

A queen whose pyramid is large, whose liturgy is complete, and whose husband is still being argued about.