The cult pyramid to the southeast is the only such monument known from the Middle Kingdom. It has two chapels, to the north ...

A joint French-Swiss archaeological mission discovered a 4,000-year-old mudbrick mastaba tomb belonging to Teti Neb Fu, a royal physician from the reign of Pharaoh Pepi II, at the Saqqara ...

Just east of the Great Pyramid is a large double mastaba belonging to Khufukhaf I, prince and vizier, and his wife. This represents a later style of tomb, with significantly larger and more ...

The subject of the lecture, which was illustrated with stereopticon views, was "The Mastaba-Tombs of the Pyramid-Field of Gizeh." Mr. Lythgoe briefly outlined the development of the mastaba-tomb ...

“A joint French-Swiss archaeological mission has uncovered the mastaba tomb of a royal physician named ‘Teti Neb Fu’ in the southern part of Saqqara, dating back to the Old Kingdom during ...

She notes that some mastaba (early non-pyramid tomb) walls in Giza and Saqqara were actually inscribed with "curses" meant to terrify those who would desecrate or rob the royal resting place.

The tomb belonged to Teti Neb Fu ... Teti Neb Fu was buried in a ritualistic chamber known as a “mastaba,” which was only used for the highest-status members of society.

In the Egyptian necropolis of Sakkara, archaeologists have discovered a magnificently decorated mastaba tomb of a royal physician that is around 4100 years old. Although the mummy and grave goods ...

Previous Egyptian architects had used stone as a building material for certain features in the mud-brick royal mastaba tombs of Dynasties I (3050-2890 BCE) and II (2890-2682 BCE) but Imhotep created a ...