Mastaba Tomb of Perneb. Dimensions: H. 482.2 cm (15 ft. 9 13/16 in.). Dynasty: Dynasty 5. Reign: reigns of Isesi to Unis. Date: ca. 2381-2323 B.C..The Location of Perneb's Tomb For millennia, the vast cemetery of Saqqara (about twenty-five miles south of Cairo) was the burial ground for Memphis, ancient Egypt's capital. In an especially crowded section, just north of the enclosure around King Djoser's Step Pyramid at Saqqara (built during Dynasty 3, ca. 2650 B.C.), a number of courtiers and royal family members of Dynasty 5 (ca. 2465-2323 B.C.) were buried. Among them were Perneb and the vizier Shepsesre, who may have been Perneb's father. Perneb's Tomb: A MastabaIn many societies graves are covered with mounds of earth and stone. By the beginning of Dynasty 1 (ca. 3100 B.C.) the ancient Egyptians had transformed that simple scheme into a formalized building type that Egyptologists call a mastaba (from the Arabic word for "bench"). The typical mastaba of Perneb's time was built of

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Mastaba Tomb of Perneb. Dimensions: H. 482.2 cm (15 ft. 9 13/16 in.). Dynasty: Dynasty 5. Reign: reigns of Isesi to Unis. Date: ca. 2381-2323 B.C..The Location of Perneb's Tomb For millennia, the vast cemetery of Saqqara (about twenty-five miles south of Cairo) was the burial ground for Memphis, ancient Egypt's capital. In an especially crowded section, just north of the enclosure around King Djoser's Step Pyramid at Saqqara (built during Dynasty 3, ca. 2650 B.C.), a number of courtiers and royal family members of Dynasty 5 (ca. 2465-2323 B.C.) were buried. Among them were Perneb and the vizier Shepsesre, who may have been Perneb's father. Perneb's Tomb: A MastabaIn many societies graves are covered with mounds of earth and stone. By the beginning of Dynasty 1 (ca. 3100 B.C.) the ancient Egyptians had transformed that simple scheme into a formalized building type that Egyptologists call a mastaba (from the Arabic word for "bench"). The typical mastaba of Perneb's time was built of

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