the next king of the second dynasty is believed to have been kaaba almost nothing is known about the events of his reign but like his two predecessors cabba also had a pyramid built for himself the so-called layer pyramid located at the site of zawiyet el-ariyan just a few miles south of modern cairo archaeologists believe that the pyramid was never actually used and so we have the same problem as with sekemkhet specifically that of a king's missing body that's just another mystery in the history of ancient egypt according to the turin canon kaaba reigned for only seven years while the order of the previous kings is debated egyptologists almost unanimously agree that a king by the name of huni was the last ruler from egypt's third dynasty huni's NUMBER_TOKEN-year reign was accompanied by massive construction projects which may have helped to pave the way for the pyramid frenzy that would follow with the fourth dynasty despite this events in the life and reign of huni are unknown though it seems that he ruled over a politically stable and prosperous egyptian society that extended from the mediterranean sea in the north to beyond the first cataract and into nubia because huni's horus name isn't known some have identified him with the mysterious hor kahijet whose stila was discovered in the NUMBER_TOKENs it has the first known depiction showing the god horus embracing a king though the art style of the stila seems to be relatively consistent with that of the early old kingdom this still doesn't prove that hor kahajet and huni were one and the same while huni's reign may have ended around NUMBER_TOKEN bc his presence at least in the egyptian society of the old kingdom did not according to the chronicle known as the palermo stone which was compiled over a century after huni's death it's written that donations were made to a mortuary temple dedicated to huni meaning that there was some sort of cult that revolved around him well after his death there's also a pyramid at the site of meidum about a hundred kilometers south of cairo believed to have been started during the reign of huni and later added to by king snefru of the fourth dynasty it's the first structure that we know of that starts to resemble a true pyramid unfortunately there were a lot of construction errors that were made and part of the structure eventually collapsed though the pyramid and its supporting buildings never seem to have been completed such an unintended trial run may have helped the architects and engineers of the fourth dynasty to construct the famous pyramids at giza that we all marvel at today we'll take a closer look at that and more in the next program on dynasty NUMBER_TOKEN. stay tuned once again thanks so much for stopping by you all are amazing i'd also really like to thank grandcakeNUMBER_TOKEN yap de graf pastafrola michael lewis danielle allen
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