King Sahure
King Sahure (close to Ra), the second king of the Fifth Dynasty
Sahure ruled Egypt for 12 years during the 25th century BC. He established trade relations with the Levant, especially with present-day Lebanon. He sent several maritime trade missions to the coast of Lebanon for the purpose of importing cedar wood. He also sent the first missions to Puntland in the southern Red Sea to bring myrrh and precious stones such as malachite and electrum (an alloy of gold and silver).
Sahure was happy with the success of that mission and recorded it on an engraved plaque in his funerary temple, depicting him bending before a myrrh tree in the garden of his palace. He also sent missions to the turquoise and copper mines in Sinai. There are also indications that he fought Libyans who had seized herds of cows from western Egypt
Sahure built himself a pyramid at Abusir, thus distancing himself from the tombs of his ancestors from the Fourth Dynasty located at Saqqara and Giza, where his ancestors built the pyramids of Giza. Perhaps the presence of the Temple of the Sun, built there by Userkaf, the founder of the Fifth Dynasty, was the incentive for this.
The pyramid of Sahure is much smaller than the pyramids of the Fourth Dynasty that preceded it, but its decoration was more beautiful. The path between the Valley Temple and its funerary temple adjacent to the pyramid was decorated with engraved walls, as was its funerary temple. The engineers who built the Pyramid of Sahure and its surrounding hall invented palm-shaped columns, which later spread to subsequent Egyptian buildings throughout the ages. Sahure is also known to have built a sun temple called “The Field of Ra,” which may be found in the Abu Sir area in the future.
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