It was constructed for Ameny Qemau, a obscure king of the 13th Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period.

[1] The stone constituting its upper structure has been entirely robbed but the damaged substructures remain.

[2] The earliest known historical mention of the pyramid of Ameny Qemau is found in the book of the medieval Arab historian Taqi al-Din Ahmad Al-Maqrizi "Geography and History of Egypt"[3] where Al-Maqrizi describes the "pyramids of Dashur".

The pyramid of Ameny Qemau was rediscovered in 1957 by a team led by Charles Arthur Musès.

[5] More recently, the remains of the funerary equipment of the king were published by Nabil Swelim and Aidan Dodson.