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  • The Mastaba (the Arabic word for bench) envisions a pyramid-like structure made of 410,000 brightly colored oil barrels stacked horizontally and rising 492 feet high and 984 feet wide.

    Summit Daily News - Top Stories 2009

  • The Mastaba (the Arabic word for bench) envisions a pyramid-like structure made of 410,000 brightly colored oil barrels stacked horizontally and rising 492 feet high and 984 feet wide.

    NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories 2009

  • The Mastaba (the Arabic word for bench) envisions a pyramid-like structure made of 410,000 brightly colored oil barrels stacked horizontally and rising 492 feet (150 meters) high and

    Culture | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • (Mastaba is the Arabic word for bench, and these tombs are so named because they resemble the benches outside shops in the markets.)

    Egyptology News 2009

  • The Mastaba (the Arabic word for bench) project envisions a pyramid-like structure made of

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local editor@denverpost.com (<B>By Ula Ilnytzky </B> / 2009

  • The Mastaba (the Arabic word for bench) envisions a pyramid-like structure made of 410,000 brightly colored oil barrels stacked horizontally and rising 492 feet high and 984 feet wide.

    unknown title 2009

  • Discovered by the French archaeologist Auguste Mariette at the turn of the century, the tomb, called the Mastaba of Akhethetep, was covered over with sand and forgotten shortly after the chapel was removed.

    From the Sands of Saqqara 1997

  • Meanwhile, they write that they will be planting palm trees, eucalyptus trees, thorn trees and other shrubbery around the Mastaba, at a distance, to act as windbreakers, to minimize the force of the sand and windstorms.

    The Mastaba of Abu Dhabi 2007

  • They should drop the landscaping and create a sandstorm around the Mastaba.

    The Mastaba of Abu Dhabi 2007

  • This chapel, on display at the Louvre since 1903, belongs to the recently rediscovered Mastaba of Akhethetep at Saqqara, Egypt.

    From the Sands of Saqqara 1997

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