Editing Huni (section)

===Lepsius pyramid – I===
A mysterious mud brick pyramid, originally planned to be the size of that of [[Pyramid of Khafre|Khafrâ]], was uncovered in [[Abu Rawash]] and documented by [[Karl Richard Lepsius]], who listed it in [[Lepsius list of pyramids|his list of pyramids]] as ''[[Lepsius I Pyramid|Pyramid I]]''. The pyramid was already a heap of rubble at the time his excavations in the 1840s: only a {{convert|17|m|ft|adj=mid|-high}} stump of brick layers was left. Lepsius nonetheless discovered a narrow corridor leading down to a nearly square chamber. In it, he found a roughly hewn stone sarcophagus. Lepsius dated the pyramid to the late 3rd dynasty and proposed a connection to King Huni.<ref name=TAH/><ref>Karl Richard Lepsius: ''Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien''. p.&nbsp;21ff.</ref>

Today, this theory is no longer accepted. In 1989, Egyptologist [[Nabil Swelim]] examined the pyramid more precisely and found that it was made of small mud bricks, with a quarter of its inner core hewn out of a natural bedrock. The rock core itself contained several [[rock-cut tombs]] dating back to the 5th and 6th dynasty. Swelim and other Egyptologists, such as [[Toby Wilkinson]], point out that it would be surprising for a royal pyramid to have been completely destroyed less than 300 years after its construction, only to be re-used for simple rock-cut tombs. Additionally, he points to the unusual geographic position of the pyramid: Old Kingdom pyramids were commonly built on high grounds, while the pyramid Lepsius I lies on a flat plain. Thus the dating of this monument to the late 3rd dynasty is no longer considered tenable.<ref name=TAH>Toby A. H. Wilkinson: ''Early Dynastic Egypt.'' Routledge, London/New York 1999, {{ISBN|0-415-18633-1}}, p.&nbsp;103–105.</ref><ref>Miroslav Verner: ''Die Pyramiden.'' Rowohlt, Wiesbaden 1999, {{ISBN|3-499-60890-1}}, p.&nbsp;177.</ref><ref>Nabil M. Swelim: ''The brick pyramid at Abu Rawash Number "I" by Lepsius.'' Publications of the Archeological Society of Alexandria, Kairo 1987, p.&nbsp;113.</ref>