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2012
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Beginning about two centuries before the end of ancient Egypt’s Old Kingdom, hieroglyphic religious texts were inscribed upon the interior walls of the pyramid tombs of kings and queens. The first king whose subterranean crypt was decorated in this way was named Unas, and his last year of reign was about 2345BCE. His pyramid complex and those of his successors were built in the great necropolis of Saqqara, which had been the favored place for royal burials already for three centuries. Egypt’s capital, Memphis, sat below the desert necropolis on the Nile, where the narrow Nile Valley opened up to
