Tombs

Kemetic Architecture

Kemetic (Egyptian): Images of Mastabas and Pyramids 

 

"Mastaba, (Arabic: “bench”) rectangular superstructure of ancient Egyptian tombs, built of mud brick or, later, stone, with sloping walls and a flat roof. A deep shaft descended to the underground burial chamber." [The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica] Read More

"As of November 2008, sources cite either 118 or 138 as the number of identified Egyptian pyramids. Most were built as tombs for the country's pharaohs and their consorts during the Old and Middle Kingdom periods." [Wikipedia] Read More

Pyramids and mortuary temples at Abusir.

Mastabas Tombs in the Necroplois of Gizeh Restored by Perrot-Chipiez

Section of a mastabas at Gizeh with two shaft

Tomb of the Middle Empire at Abydos (After Perrot-Chipiez)

Pyramids of Giza

Plan of the Pyramids of Jizeh

Plan and Section of Tomb of Meneptah at Thebes

The Great Pyramid, showing passages and mummy chambers

Three Mastabas at Gizeh

Section of Great Pyramid

Royal pyramid with rows of mastăba tombs behind it

Section of King’s Chamber and of Passage in Great Pyramid

Longitudinal section of a mastaba

The upper chamber, the pit, and the sarcophagus chamber of a mastaba

Pyramid of Cheops (usual form of pyramids)

Section of the tomb of Rameses II

Vaulted rooms and doorway of a crude brick pyramid at thebes