{"id":15469,"date":"2026-04-18T01:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/visiting-the-tomb-of-meresankh-iii-eastern-cemetery-giza-g7530-g7540-scribe-in-the-house-of-life-hannah-pethen-ph-d\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T01:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:40:06","slug":"visiting-the-tomb-of-meresankh-iii-eastern-cemetery-giza-g7530-g7540-scribe-in-the-house-of-life-hannah-pethen-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/visiting-the-tomb-of-meresankh-iii-eastern-cemetery-giza-g7530-g7540-scribe-in-the-house-of-life-hannah-pethen-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting the tomb of Meresankh III, Eastern Cemetery, Giza G7530-G7540 \u2013 Scribe in the House of Life: Hannah Pethen Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mastabas in the Eastern Cemetery, with the Great Pyramid of Khufu (rear right); the pyramid of Khafre (rear, left) and the pyramid of Khufu\u2019s Queen Henutsen (rear, centre) behind. A small chapel is visible in the \u2018street\u2019 between the mastabas in the foreground, with the denuded edge of mastaba G7430 behind it. To the left is the north edge of mastaba G7520. (Author photograph February 2024).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Eastern Cemetery<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">East of the Great Pyramid, arranged in careful blocks, like a suburb of the dead, are a series of large <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/museums-static\/digitalegypt\/burialcustoms\/mastaba.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mastaba<\/a> (bench) tombs belonging to the nobles of Khufu\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hannahpethen.com\/2024\/04\/24\/visiting-the-tomb-of-meresankh-iii-eastern-cemetery-giza-g7530-g7540\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mastabas in the Eastern Cemetery, with the Great Pyramid of Khufu (rear right); the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1141,1206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt","category-1206"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}