page_title: Khuit
section_title: Burial
hierarchical_section_title: Khuit / Burial
caption_attribution_description: Proposition d'élévation de la pyramide de la reine Khouit II, épouse de Téti - Saqqarah - VIe dynastie égyptienne
context_page_description: Khuit II was a wife of King Teti, the first pharaoh of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt.
context_section_description: The pyramids of Iput I and Khuit were discovered between July 1897 and February 1989 by Victor Loret just north of Teti's pyramid complex at Saqqara.
  Loret initially thought Khuit's tomb was a mastaba. Excavations in the 1960s by Maragioglio and Rinaldi first suggested that Khuit had been buried in a pyramid. Remains of masonry belonging to the ruins of a small mortuary temple were found as well. Further excavations in 1995 by Hawass have confirmed that Khuit's tomb was a pyramid. Excavations of the pyramid itself revealed a burial chamber with a pink granite sarcophagus. The mortuary temple associated with her funerary complex is located to the east of the pyramid. The temple included an offering room with a false door and an altar. The temple walls were decorated and showed scenes of offering bearers.
caption: Pyramid complex of Khuit in Saqqara
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