Researchers have speculated that the structure could be a mastaba, an underground rectangular ... because the 'shape is too sharp.' The Great Pyramid stands more than 480 feet tall with the ...

The Giza pyramid complex is among the most famous ... each named after an excavator or mastaba numbers.

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 capital of the Old Kingdom of Egypt has some extraordinary funerary monuments, including rock tombs, ornate mastabas, temples and pyramids. In ancient times ... waaronder rotsgraven, sierlijke ...