 Djedkare was buried in a pyramid in Saqqara named Nefer Djedkare ( " Djedkare is perfect " ) , which is now ruined owing to theft of stone from its outer casing during antiquity . The burial chamber still held Djedkare 's mummy when it was excavated in the 1940s . Examinations of the mummy revealed that he died in his fifties . Following his death , Djedkare was the object of a cult that lasted at least until the end of the Old Kingdom . He seemed to have been held in particularly high esteem during the mid @-@ Sixth Dynasty , whose pharaohs lavished rich offerings on his cult . Archaeological evidence suggests the continuing existence of this funerary cult throughout the much later New Kingdom period ( c . 1550 – 1077 BCE ) . Djedkare was also remembered by the Ancient Egyptians as the king of vizier Ptahhotep , the purported author of The Maxims of Ptahhotep , one of the earliest pieces of philosophic wisdom literature . 
 Djedkare was buried in a pyramid in Saqqara named Nefer Djedkare ( " Djedkare <a href='drop_aux' title='1'><mark>is</mark></a>perfect " ) , which is now ruined owing to theft of stone from its outer casing during antiquity . The burial chamber still held Djedkare <a href='null_genetive' title='2'><mark>'s</mark></a>mummy when it was excavated in the 1940s . Examinations of the mummy revealed that he died in his fifties . Following his death , Djedkare was the object of a cult <a href='null_relcl' title='3'><mark>that</mark></a>lasted at least until the end of the Old Kingdom . He seemed to <a href='been_done' title='4'><mark>have</mark></a> been held in particularly high esteem during the mid @-@ Sixth Dynasty , whose pharaohs lavished rich offerings on his cult . Archaeological evidence <a href='uninflect' title='5'><mark>suggests</mark></a> the continuing existence of this funerary cult throughout the much later New Kingdom period ( c . 1550 – 1077 BCE ) . Djedkare was also remembered by the Ancient Egyptians as the king of vizier Ptahhotep , the purported author of The Maxims of Ptahhotep , one of the earliest pieces of philosophic wisdom literature . 
Djedkare was buried in a pyramid in Saqqara named Nefer Djedkare ( " Djedkare bumpin " ) , which is now ruined owing to theft of stone from its outer casing during antiquity . The burial chamber still held Djedkare  mummy when it was excavated in da 1940s . Examinations of the mummy revealed dat he died in his fifties . Following his death , Djedkare was the object of a cult lasted at least until the end of the Old Kingdom . He seemed to done been held in particularly high esteem during the mid @-@ Sixth Dynasty , whose pharaohs lavished rich offerings on his cult . Archaeological evidence suggest the continuing existence of dis funerary cult throughout tdamuch later New Kingdom period ( c . 1550 – 1077 BCE ) . Djedkare was also remembered by thdancient Egyptians as the king of vizier Ptahhotep , the purported author of Thedaxims of Ptahhotep , one of the daliest pieces of philosophic wisdom literature .