Akhethetep was a high dignitary of Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh...

 who lived during the Fifth Dynasty around 2400 BC. He was a son of Peseshet

Peseshet

Peseshet, who lived under the Fourth Dynasty, is often credited with being the earliest known female physician in ancient Egypt, though another, Merit Ptah lived earlier. Her title was "lady overseer of the female physicians," but whether she was a physician herself is uncertain...

. Akhethotep and his son Ptahhotep Tshefi were senior court officials during the rule of Djedkare (2414-2375 BC) and of Unas

Unas

Unas was a Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, and the last ruler of the Fifth dynasty from the Old Kingdom. His reign has been dated as falling between 2375 BC and 2345 BC...

 (Weinis), towards the end of the 5th dynasty (2494 to 2345 BC).

He is famous for his tomb

Tomb of Akhethetep

The Tomb of Akhethetep , also Tomb or Mastaba of Akhethotep, is a tomb complex that was built and completed at different times in Saqqarah, Giza, Egypt. It is the tomb of Akhethotep, a royal official, located near the western part of the Step Pyramid in Saqqara...

, discovered in Giza by French Egyptologist Georges Aaron Bénédite

Georges Aaron Bénédite

Georges Aaron Bénédite was a French Egyptologist from Nîmes.He was the son of Samuel and Isabella Bénédite Lisbon, whose second husband George Lafenestre , was a noted poet, art critic and curator of the Louvre, who helped raise the young George Aaron; who himself later became a curator at the...

in 1903 and which was later reassembled in the Louvre. One of the depictions on the wall of the tomb was Akhethotep directing the building of the tomb. On one stele Akhethotep is called " prophet of the Unas pyramid Nefer asut" ; but on the other he is "prophet of the Unas pyramid Asut asutt."