. The earth and its inhabitants .. . on the skirt of the Libyan cliffs, are the so-called mastaba, which are built over the chambers of the dead here excavated in the live rock. The largest of these sepulchral buildings, known to the Arabs by the name of Mastaba-el-Faraun, is traditionally said to have been the seat from the summit of which the early Egyptian monarchs proclaimed their will to the people. But the explorations carried out on the spot have shown that it was the tomb of Unas, a high official of the fifth dynasty. The tombs of this vast necropolis are divided into square groups by
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . on the skirt of the Libyan cliffs, are the so-called mastaba, which are built over the chambers of the dead here excavated in the live rock. The largest of these sepulchral buildings, known to the Arabs by the name of Mastaba-el-Faraun, is traditionally said to have been the seat from the summit of which the early Egyptian monarchs proclaimed their will to the people. But the explorations carried out on the spot have shown that it was the tomb of Unas, a high official of the fifth dynasty. The tombs of this vast necropolis are divided into square groups by streets running at right angles ; and Maspero suggests that the pyramids were also disposed in some similar symmetrical order. Those of the first dynasties are situated in the extreme north, those of the twelfth in the Fayum ; while between
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