With the
IIIème dynasty,
begin the period
that the historians called
the Old Kingdom that lasts
2700 BC to more or less -2350 BC. The power moves Northbound and will only revert Southbound in Thebes. Vercoutter makes little mention of Abydos during this
period.
During the reign of Houni, last Pharaoh of the 3rd dynasty, several small pyramids have been built through the country, of which one in El-Amrah, to 8 km of Abydos. Their ruins overage not 6 m high and their basis about twenty side
meters. Their destination seems dark. Tombs of queens? Cenotaphs? Representations
of the primordial mound next to solar
temples?
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