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The Burial Of Kings By Giza And The Pyramids Of

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1. Both evolutions in the burial architecture have sort of the same meaning as for as having a special way to lay a royal body. In Kostof’s text, he refers to The Burial of Kings from the Cenotaphs of the early Pharaohs at Abydos as a chambered roof in timber and topped with a head of sand containing a brick shell (as shown on fig. 414a, pg.71.) Egyptians believed in life after death and made sure to build a tomb to where it was very significant. With The Pyramids at Giza , Kostof explains that each pyramid had a different meaning. Cheops immediate family represented the oldest of the three pyramids. The oldest pyramid had walls with various statues that represented the deification of individual organs of the royal’s body. The mortuary temple

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