[4] North of Nyuserre's sun temple is a cemetery dating back to the First Dynasty of Egypt (c. 3100–2900 BCE), where people belonging to the middle ranks of the Ancient Egyptian society were buried.

[4] The Sun Temple of Nyuserre was excavated by Egyptologists Ludwig Borchardt and Friedrich Willhelm von Bissing sometime between 1898 and 1901, on behalf of the Berlin Museum.

Nyuserre also built a pyramid complex in what was then the royal necropolis, 1 km (0.62 mi) to the south of Abu Gorab in Abusir.

It was built in honor of the Egyptian Sun god Ra and named (Ssp-ib-R’) meaning “Re’s Favorite Place” or "Joy of Re.

[3] The complex is primarily built out of mudbrick covered with limestone, and is situated on the shores of the ancient Abusir lake bed.

It has also been hypothesized that these basins were used as leveling devices for large areas, linked together and filled with water to provide a common point of reference.

A large, 30 x 10 m brick built sun barque buried in a mud-brick chamber was excavated to the south of the temple.

[3] The passageway was decorated with relief scenes depicting the sed-festival, an important Ancient Egyptian ritual of renewal.

[3] The vast illustrations of animal and plant life as well as human engagement with nature may be some of the earliest extensive corpus of such scenes.

[4] Although, the reliefs do not reflect typical royal funerary decoration scene during The Old Kingdom, and although skilfully designed, they are not as carefully executed as similar carvings from the 4th and early 5th dynasties.

[3] The German archaeological expedition under the direction of Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing uncovered the ruins of large buildings of mudbricks beneath the sun temple of Nyuserre in Abu Gorab.

[8] In August 2022, archaeologists from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw announced the discovery of a 4,500-year-old temple dedicated to the Egyptian sun god Ra.