It was first identified as a pyramid in 1979, when the German archaeologists Günter Dreyer and Werner Kaiser [de] were leading a survey of Edfu after a tip off from the inspector.
It consisted of a core structure measuring 8.3 metres on each side, surrounded by two courses of stone about four cubits thick.
Dreyer and Kaiser thought that it and the other pyramids named above were part of a single building project of Pharaoh Huni, the last ruler of the Third Dynasty.
Andrzej Ćwiek mostly agrees, but suggests that Huni's successor, Sneferu (c.2670–2630 BC) the founder of the Fourth Dynasty, was the builder.
Speculation about the function of the pyramids ranges from a representation of the king, a depiction of the benben, or a symbol of the political and religious unity of the land to a cenotaph for a royal wife.