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CAIRO, EGYPT—Mamdouh El Damaty, Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities, announced that a mastaba, or mudbrick tomb, from the Old Kingdom period had been found in Quesna, which is better known for its ...
The tomb, known as a mastaba, was found in the pyramid necropolis of Dahshur, about 25 miles south of Cairo, during a recent Egyptian-German archaeological mission. Dahshur is the southernmost of ...
Egyptian-German archaeological mission affiliated with the German Archaeological Institute, headed by Dr. Stefan Seidlmayer, succeeded in uncovering a mastaba dating back to the Old Kingdom era during ...
A collection of 180 ancient Egyptian ushabti figurines and a limestone sarcophagus have been found in a mastaba tomb in Egypt's Dakahliya. During routine excavation work at Tel Tabla ...
Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude conceived their “Mastaba” -- a postmodern pyramid made of oil barrels -- as their largest and only permanent work. But since its conception in 1977 ...