5,000-Year-Old Tombs Offer New Clues About the Origins of Egypt's Pyramids
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Elizabeth Rayne
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Archaeologists have opened two 5,000-year-old tombs in Egypt that may reveal the origins of pyramid construction. The article explores how early Egyptian burial structures — simpler mastabas and mudbrick tombs — predate and likely influenced the design and engineering of the iconic Giza pyramids. It discusses the reign of Pharaoh Narmer (the first king of a unified Egypt) and the evolution of royal tomb architecture from modest beginnings to the monumental pyramids, suggesting that the seeds of pyramid building were planted centuries earlier than previously thought.
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· 3 pulledEvery year, millions of tourists walk the scorching sands of the Giza plateau to stand in the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Khufu.
Egyptian civilization didn't begin with a pharaoh draped in gold, though.
Most of the visitors gazing in wonder would never think that the monumental tombs piercing the heavens there had their foundations in much less impressive structures that rose out of the desert thousands of years before Pharaoh Khufu ascended the throne.
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