who made the ancient egyptian pyramids?
Ancient Egypt
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 The main innovation of the pyramid of Unas is the first appearance of the Pyramid Texts , one of the oldest religious texts in Egypt to have survived to this day . In doing so , Unas initiated a tradition that would be followed in the pyramid of the kings and queens of the Sixth to Eighth Dynasties , until the end of the Old Kingdom circa 200 years later . 

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 'c . 2345 BCE - First royal pyramid , of King Unas , to contain the Pyramid Texts , carved precursors ( intended only for the king ) to the funerary literature from which the Book of the Dead ultimately developed 

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 A gold cylinder seal bearing Menkauhor 's cartouche as part of the name of his pyramid together with the serekh of Djedkare Isesi is now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts , Boston . The seal , purportedly discovered near the Pactolus river valley in western Anatolia , could attest to wide ranging trade @-@ contacts during the Fifth Dynasty , but its provenance remains unverifiable . 

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 Unas built a pyramid in Saqqara , the smallest of the royal pyramids completed during the Old Kingdom . The accompanying mortuary complex with its high and valley temples linked by a 750 m ( 2 @,@ 460 ft ) long causeway was lavishly decorated with painted reliefs , whose quality and variety surpass the usual royal iconography . Furthermore , Unas was the first pharaoh to have the Pyramid Texts carved and painted on the walls of the chambers of his pyramid , a major innovation that was followed by his successors until the First Intermediate Period ( c . 2160 – c . 2050 BC ) . These texts identify the king with Ra and with Osiris , whose cult was on the rise in Unas ' time , and were meant to help the king reach the afterlife . 

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 Another legacy of Sahure is his pyramid complex : its layout became the template for all subsequent pyramid complexes of the Old Kingdom and some of its architectural elements , such as its palmiform columns , became hallmarks of Egyptian architecture . 
