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Necropolis of Abusir, Niuserre The true heyday of the necropolis may be dated to the time of King Niuserre, the younger son of Neferirkare and brother of Neferefre. This king was the last one to have built his funerary complex in Abusir. Besides that, he also arranged the completion of the complexes of his mother Khentkaus II, his father Neferirkare and his brother Neferefre. The time of Niuserre’s reign also witnessed an unprecedented rise of the power of men of non-royal origin. One of them was <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/prof_richard/4162491908/in/photostream/">Ptahshepses</a>, who was the first person outside the royal family to have the right to marry a royal daughter – princess Khamerernebti. <a href="http://egyptologie.ff.cuni.cz/?req=doc:abusir3st&amp;lang=en&amp;" rel="nofollow">Miroslav Bárta</a> Nyuserre's burial place is a pyramid at Abusir located between those of pharaohs Sahure and Neferirkare Kakai. Its initial height was around 52m, with a base of about 79 square meters and a slope of 52 degrees. The volume of stone was a total of about 112,000 cubic meters. It was originally covered with fine limestone as shown by some remaining casing stones. The burial chamber and antechamber were both lined with fine limestone as well and roofed with 3 tiers of megalithic limestone beams 10 meters long weighing 90 tons each <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyuserre_Ini" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a>