His remains were found at the burial site at Nuwayrat, in Middle Egypt, interred in the ceramic vessel burial style that the Egypt Museum describes as associated with non-elite individuals of certain periods.

The radiocarbon dating of his remains places his death somewhere between 2855 and 2570 BCE — a range of roughly 285 years that straddles the transition from the Early Dynastic period into the Old Kingdom, with the archaeological artifacts and funerary practices in his tomb attributable to the Third and Fourth Dynasties.

The Old Kingdom, which corresponds roughly to the Third through Sixth Dynasties and the dates 2686 to 2181 BCE, is one of the most celebrated periods in Egyptian history.

It was the Age of the Pyramids — the era when the great pyramid complexes at Giza, Saqqara, Dahshur, and Abu Sir were built, when the administrative and religious structures of the pharaonic state reached their most elaborate early form, when Egyptian art and architecture achieved conventions that would endure for two thousand more years.