Talking Pyramids

I was contacted this morning by Peter Der Manuelian who is the Lecturer in Egyptology at Tufts University and the Director of the Giza Archives Project at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Anyone interested in the Giza plateau should have the Giza Archives website bookmarked in their favourites list as it is easily the most comprehensive resource for research on Giza and contains a lot of photos and papers from the original excavations by George Reisner as well as more recent work by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Peter wanted to share the news of the publication of “Giza Mastabas VIII: Mastabas of Nucleus Cemetery G 2100, Major Mastabas G 2100-2220″.

From the website:

West of the Great Pyramid at Giza, the Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu laid out scores of mastaba tombs for the elite members of ancient Egyptian society. Specific clusters of tombs seem to form architectural and archaeological units, prompting the modern division of the Giza Necropolis into discrete nucleus cemeteries. This book interprets the complete archaeological record of the mastabas of Cemetery G 2100, one of the six nucleus cemeteries at Giza. As a key to understanding Old Kingdom mortuary development at Giza, it explores the distinguishing features of such a grouping of tombs and tomb owners: relative chronology and individual artistic styles; common administrative titles, possible familial connections to the king; and the relationship of the earlier, major mastabas to the subsequent, minor burials surrounding them.

Pictured above is one of the many 3D computer illustrations that depict the internal chamber systems of the tombs from above and below ground. This book will be invaluable to anyone studying Old Kingdom architecture.

For more information please visit the website where you can also purchase a copy.

Further reading:
The Giza Archives
The Giza Archives Blog
About Peter Der Manuelian

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