The Sun Temples of Niuserra – Sun Temples Project
The sun temple of Niuserra stands on a natural outcrop located in the northernmost area of the site of Abu Ghurab. The temple was built by King Niuserra, sixth ruler of the Fifth Dynasty, and remains so far the most significant evidence of this unparalleled category of Old Kingdom monuments.
Photo by Massimiliano Nuzzolo The sun temple of Niuserra stands on a natural outcrop located in the northernmost area of the site of Abu Ghurab. The temple was built by King Niuserra, sixth ruler of the Fifth Dynasty, and remains so far the most significant evidence of this unparalleled category of Old Kingdom monuments. The temple was originally discovered and excavated in three intense seasons of field-works (1898-1901) by the German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt, who also published the main results of the archaeological excavation in a masterly volume in 1905. Two more volumes, with a brie
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