Pepi's mortuary complex, Mennefer Pepy, eventually became the name for the entire city of Memphis after the 18th Dynasty.
It is the central feature of a vast mortuary complex in an enormous courtyard surrounded by ceremonial structures and decoration.
From 1902 until 1908, he undertook extensive excavations of the Pyramid of Sahure, exploring the entire mortuary complex.
In this view it is incorrect to hold as a sole hint for this hypotheses the closeness of the sculpture to the mortuary complex.
High, thick double walls, more massive than for any previous mortuary complex, enclose a rectangular open space.
Research on the north and west sides of the mortuary complex was conducted starting in 1976 by Ahmed el-Khouli who excavated and restored the pyramid entrance.
All the other buildings of Neferefre's mortuary complex were erected under the reign of his brother, Nyuserre Ini.
The surviving remains of these temple complexes reflect peculiar similarities within royal mortuary complexes as far as their architecture is concerned.
Sahure preferred the site of Abusir for the construction of his mortuary complex to the heavily built necropolis of Saqqara.
This pyramid was the last pyramid ever built as part of a mortuary complex in Egypt.