01-05-2010, 12:50 AM
I don't know whether or not this is relevant.
Has anyone heard the term mastaba before? I encountered this definition:
It was from the web site for environmental artist couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude. As with their other works, they had an idea for an exceptionally large alteration of the environment, in this case to build a structure larger than the Great Pyramid.
http://christojeanneclaude.net/mast.shtml
Just wondered if mastaba is a well-known concept among students of the pyramids?
Has anyone heard the term mastaba before? I encountered this definition:
Quote:Mastaba (from the Arabic word meaning bench) is a forerunner of the pyramids, that form belongs to the trapezoidgeometric shape and is oblong.
It was from the web site for environmental artist couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude. As with their other works, they had an idea for an exceptionally large alteration of the environment, in this case to build a structure larger than the Great Pyramid.
http://christojeanneclaude.net/mast.shtml
Just wondered if mastaba is a well-known concept among students of the pyramids?