The necropolis of Gizeh is a vast necropolis located on a plate of western bank of the the Nile, with Gizeh. It was used mainly under the Ancient Empire.

One distinguishes four principal cemeteries in this necropolis, the cemetery is, the western cemetery, the southern cemetery and the central cemetery.

Plan of the plate of Gizeh

The cemetery is

This part of the necropolis joins together the burials of important characters of the royal family. It is thus rightly, which they take seat at the sides of the pyramids of the queens. One finds there the burials of wire of Khéops, Kaouab {{Ier}} (G 7120 and G 7110), Hordjédef (G 7220 and G7210) and Khoufoukhaf (G 7140 and 7130) inter alia. The mastaba G 7340 delivered painted a limestone sarcophagus decorated with a reason for “frontage of palate”. The mastaba of Ânkhaf and Hétep-Young stags {{II}} (G 7510) is most imposing and dominates the end is necropolis. The excavations of the building revealed a painted limestone bust of Ânkhaf which is considered, rightly, like the masterpiece of the statuary of the Ancient Empire.

The western cemetery

The western cemetery is most important of the necropolis and gathers a multitude of mastabas dating from with. Divided into three parts, the archeologists distinguish the cemetery called “in level” to the accesses from the pyramid and gathering mainly the burials of priests attached to the funerary worships. Then the cemetery comes says “village of the mastabas” whose very urbanized plan gathers most important mastabas of which that of the vizier Hémiounou (G 4000), the mastaba the most imposing G 2000 which could not be allotted and finally, smallest mastabas of the western end of the necropolis.

The southern cemetery

This cemetery, located just at the south of the enclosure of the complex of Khéops, is dominated by nine large Mastaba S of which some could be allotted to contemporary characters of the reign of Mykérinos. Between these burials many monuments are dating from and from. In the south-east of this cemetery is imposing it mastaba vizier of, Sechemnefer {{IV}}. Its access is done by a flanked slope of two Obélisque S driving at a entry with two columns.

The central cemetery

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