Editing Piye (section)

==Burial==

Piye's tomb was located next to the largest [[Pyramid]] in the cemetery, designated Ku.1 (seen in the image on the right), at [[el-Kurru]] near [[Jebel Barkal]] in what is now [[Northern, Sudan|Northern Sudan]]. Down a stairway of 19 steps opened to the east, the burial chamber is cut into the bedrock as an open trench and covered with a [[Corbel|corbelled]] masonry roof. His body had been placed on a bed which rested in the middle of the chamber on a stone bench with its four corners cut away to receive the legs of the bed so that the bed platform lay directly on the bench. Further out to the edge of the cemetery (the first pharaoh to receive such an entombment in more than 500 years)<ref name=draper /> his four favorite horses had been buried. This site would be also occupied by the tombs of several later members of the dynasty.