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The book presents the reader the richest corpus of Old Kingdom royal funerary domains. The core of the book represents a catalog of funerary domains retrieved during recent archaeological works by an Egyptian team at Sahura ́s causeway and related pehou regions. The introductory chapters provide the reader with the context and the overview of other known contemporary domains of this kind. The following chapters then discuss the nature and location of pehou regions as well as economic significance of royal domains with regard to the new finds from Sahura ́s causeway.