Who was the first pyramid built for?

The major pyramids are not built all the way through Egypt's antique history. The Pyramid Age began with a split open of building, preliminary with the 3rd Dynasty reign of Djoser. A number of of the near the beginning kings, the majority especially Snefru, build more than one pyramid. Approximately all of the kings additional to their figure through the end of the Middle Kingdom, with the probable exception of the primary Intermediate era between the Old and Middle Kingdoms. After the primary Pharaoh of Egypt's New Kingdom, Ahmose, regal pyramid building by Egyptians cease completely. Rather unexpectedly the kings of the New Kingdom choose, to a certain extent than making their tombs totally obvious, to put out of sight them in the hills of the West Bank of Thebes.

However, private individuals constructed smaller pyramids, for example in the Deir el-Medina necropolis. The Late Period Nubians who ruled Egypt also build comparatively little pyramids with much steeper sides, though these were in information construct in Nubia itself. This custom was carried on in Nubia after these southern rulers lost control of Egypt, and finally, more pyramids were in point of fact built in Nubia than Egypt, though on a great deal smaller scale.