Pyramid of Ameny Qemau

29.4500°N, 31.2167°E.

Thirteenth-Dynasty pyramid at south Dahshur, built for pharaoh Ameny Qemau, who reigned approximately 1790 BCE. Original base 52 metres per side; original height around 35 metres at a 55° slope. Excavated by Charles Mustafa in 1957 and re-examined by an Egyptian mission in 2017 that recovered the king's name from inscribed canopic-jar fragments. The substructure preserved a quartzite burial chamber with a sliding roof, a sandstone sarcophagus, four canopic jars naming the king, and a partially preserved set of Coffin Texts on the chamber walls. The mortuary temple was never completed. Ameny Qemau is one of the more than fifty kings of the Thirteenth Dynasty, most of whose reigns lasted under five years; he is attested on this monument, on a handful of seal impressions, and in the Turin King List.

A king whose name was lost for 35 centuries and recovered from the labels on his own viscera jars, in a pyramid that closed over a burial chamber the size of a freight container.