Tomb of Perneb - Video

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Late in Dynasty 5, the palace administrator Perneb built a tomb at Saqqara, Egypt, twenty miles south of Giza. The tomb included an underground burial chamber and a limestone building called a mastaba. This contained a decorated offering chapel and a statue chamber, usually called a serdab. The mas…

Curator: Dorothea Arnold

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