It was home to all those associated with the building and the care of the funerary temple and the royal tomb.
On the East side of the city, funerary temple and chapel were laid out.
The treasuries of the funerary temple were a sore temptation to every predator hi the two kingdoms, and beyond.
Especially they would know of that rich treasure that Pharaoh had accumulated in his funerary temple.
He must have raced ahead of the main Hyksos division to be the first into the funerary temple.
There is also a small subsidiary pyramid to the south as well as the remains of a small funerary temple to the east.
He was desperate to get the basket into the sanctuary of the funerary temple.
For the first time, the funerary and sacrificial temple are no longer separated but rather integrated together in a continuous east-west arrangement within the complex.
These rituals took place at the tombs of the dead themselves or at funerary temples appointed to this purpose.
In her nearby funerary temple, Czech archaeologists discovered another set of papyrus archive documents.