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14
Jun

Khufu’s Western Cemetery Part 2: The Nucleus Cemeteries

   Posted by: Keith Payne

   in Old Kingdom, Tombs


We introduced the subject of Khufu’s Western Cemetery in the last article of this series. Before we can begin an organized delve into the mastabas themselves, we first need to understand a couple of key concepts. We need to know about the nucleus cemeteries and how they expanded into the necropolis we seek to study (the subject of this article), and how the Western Cemetery was carved up into concessions (the subject of the next article). So, how did the Western Cemetery evolve?

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