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This is the catalog in Czech and English which accompanied the unique exhibition "Kings of the Sun" that took place at the National Museum in Prague between September 1st 2020 and September 31st 2021 and mapped over a century of archaeological exploration of the site of Abusir by Egyptian, German, and Czech (until 1990 Czecho-slovak) mission. It contains 139 entries on almost 300 objects dating between the Early Dynastic and Ptolemaic Periods, including examples from the royal burial equipment of King Raneferef from the pyramid cemetery, sculptures of the priest Nefer and Princess Sheretnebty from Abusir south, as well as items from the Saite-Persian shaft tombs. The objects tell a story of the ancient Egyptian civilization and of the people who formed it, and through them, the catalog maps the existence and development of the site of Abusir for almost three millennia.