Campbell Price, of theManchester Museum, adds that the answer also has to do with Saqqara’s pyramids. The necropolis had always been a center for religious cults, from the time high-ranking Egyptians were first buried there, often in low, flat-roofed tombs calledmastabas,and probably long b...
The royal tombs are located in a landscaped garden to the northwest of the fort, and the entire dynasty was buried here, apart from two members who died in exile. The construction of each tomb was personally supervised by the sultan during his lifetime. The style of Islamic funerary architec...
In a time when the Lycian peoples were being conquered and incorporated into the Achaemenid and Greek spheres, mortuary monument-building was a way to create a visible and constant reminder of who they were and who they had been. The use of Greek and Achaemenid themes would be familiar to ...