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The Sakkara Complex: The Pyramid of King Titi

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The Pyramid of Titi (or Teti) is a smooth-sided pyramid located in central Saqqara. It was one of the earliest pyramids containing pyramid texts. Dated 2300 BC, King Titi was the ruler of the 6th dynasty.

The Titi Pyramid doesn’t look extraordinary on the outside. This is the only pyramid in which I went inside.

The entrance tunnel was not pleasant, and the tour guide asked people with heart or other conditions not to enter. You have to kind of crawl in a half-sitting position for a few minutes through the long descent of 1800 meters of narrow tunnel to enter the chambers.

Once inside, it shockingly transports you to another world. The ceiling is covered with lots of stars and the walls are covered with spells in hieroglyphs. 

There are several passages and chambers inside such as a funeral serdab, an antechamber, and King Titi’s burial chamber. Moving from one to another, you need to bend over as the doorlike entrances and short tunnels are made of stone and can’t support most people standing at full height.

Like many other pyramids or tombs, the Titi Pyramid had been broken into and robbed by tomb robbers.  The lid in the burial chamber was broken, but the basalt sarcophagus is well preserved still today and a first to have had a single band of the Pyramid Texts inscription.

The experience of seeing inside a pyramid was mind blowing. This is something I have been dreaming of all my life and it felt different upon achieving it.

We will be heading to have an Egyptian-style outdoor lunch from here.