the entrance at the north side is a short descending corridor lined with red granite followed by a passageway ending at the burial chamber with its gabled roof comprising large limestone beams of several tons each. today all of these beams are fractured, which weakens the pyramid structure. fragments of a basalt sarcophagus, likely sahure's, were found here in the burial chamber when it was first entered by john shae perring in the mid 19th century.