Beit Khallaf
Beit Khallaf is a small village located at ten kilometers in the west of Girga in Average-Egypt.
It is in the vicinity that a cemetery of (-2650 - -2375) was put at the day including two in particular large Mastaba S of raw bricks baptized mastaba K1 (K for Khallaf) and K2.
K1 is largest and produced remainders dating from the king Djéser. It was excavated in 1900 - 1902. Impressive measurements, 86 X 45 X 9 (11) meters, its base are out of hard stone with a substructure going down to 19 meters of depth. An enormous brick made sand filling and stones maintained between a thick external wall of two meters and those high around the wells and of the angles of the structure. The funerary room preserved some bones of a man and hundreds of crockery of offerings found in the staircase of access to the underground apartments which was blocked by a masonry made with mud of the the Nile and stone harrows.
The archaeological modern methods and the last studies give new facts of this single monument.
External bond
No investigation was made in 100 years but a photo report of 2006 is published on Internet.
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