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Unas

Unas was the last king of Egypt’s Fifth Dynasty, in the late third millennium BCE

The remains of Unas’s pyramid at Saqqara, from the late Fifth Dynasty, around the twenty-fourth century BCE. Its interior preserves the earliest known Pyramid Texts inscribed in a royal pyramid. Photograph by Vincent Brown, 2017
The remains of Unas’s pyramid at Saqqara, from the late Fifth Dynasty, around the twenty-fourth century BCE. Its interior preserves the earliest known Pyramid Texts inscribed in a royal pyramid. Photograph by Vincent Brown, 2017Vincent Brown / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · CC BYLicense · Related reference · Image source

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Unas was the last king of Egypt’s Fifth Dynasty, in the late third millennium BCE. [1]

His pyramid at Saqqara is the earliest known royal pyramid bearing the Pyramid Texts. He therefore appears in discussion of their earliest witnesses; an inscription’s date differs from the origin of each tradition it preserves.

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  1. Digital Egypt, University College London, identity and context: Unas. Description and source metadata Return to the text ↑

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  1. Edition 2 · 13 October 2026 · editor:aladmin

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