that each Dancing with Dandelions sculpture (pictured) has a stone heart, some of which are engraved with messages? The site was first thoroughly excavated by Ludwig Borchardt between March 19.
The temple also became the site of a Coptic shrine. The cult was active through to the Ptolemaic Kingdom. Sahure's mortuary temple became the object of a cult of Sekhmet around the Eighteenth Dynasty. The layout of the complex was adopted by succeeding kings of the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties, marking a milestone in pyramid complex construction. A mortuary temple is adjacent to the pyramid's east face and to the south is a cult pyramid, constructed similarly to the main pyramid but on a reduced scale. Stone fragments believed to belong to the king's basalt sarcophagus are the only remains of the burial that have been found. The main pyramid was built from roughly hewn limestone blocks bound with mud mortar and encased with fine white Tura limestone. The Pyramid of Sahure is a pyramid complex built in the late-26th to 25th century BC for the Egyptian pharaoh Sahure of the Fifth Dynasty.
