Mastaba of Shepseskaf (r. 2510-2503 BC), Saqqara

A mastaba, which means "home of stability", "home of eternity" or "everlasting home" in Historic Egyptian, is a sort of historic Egyptian tomb within the type of a flat-roofed, rectangular construction with inward sloping sides, constructed out of mudbricks. These edifices marked the burial websites of many eminent Egyptians throughout Egypt's Early Dynastic Interval and Outdated Kingdom. Within the Outdated Kingdom epoch, native kings started to be buried in pyramids as an alternative of in mastabas, though non-royal use of mastabas continued for over a thousand years.