The Egyptian pyramids developed from the mastaba.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

A mastaba is a flat-roofed, rectangular tomb with outward-sloping sides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Egyptology News] Reference

So is a ziggurat or a mastaba/pyramid -- only the scale is grander.    From Wordnik.com.  [After me, after you] Reference

And how did a mastaba turn into the revolutionary pyramid structure?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Thousand Men, One Million Stone Blocks, and a Couple of Sleds] Reference

He squatted beside me on the mastaba and clapped his hands to summon a servant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mummy Case]

This tomb was a mastaba, a flat-roofed stone building, with thirty-three rooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter From Egypt] Reference

"But come," Abd el Atti went on, "sit on the mastaba; we will drink coffee; you will tell me how I may serve you.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mummy Case]

Bas-tet leaped again, onto the mastaba next to me, and Ramses squeezed through the space the cat had cleared for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mummy Case]

It's truly Damascene with the low benches and cushions, almost like a mastaba, but with a craftsman-style wood pergola above.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lazy Environmentalist] Reference

As we retraced our steps I glanced over my shoulder and saw him squatting on the mastaba, still as a glittering life-sized statue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mummy Case]

Outside the Old Kingdom mastaba tomb of Mereri at Saqqara there is a false door of his wife Nebet aka Ibi, a priestess of Het-Hert.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

A video about the mastaba tomb of Unis-ankh at the.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Egypt tests DNA from fetuses in Tut's tomb] Reference

"STEP PYRAMID" na may 6 na patong patong na mastaba.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Sketch of a mastaba, and box of ivory and glaze veneer.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Kab] Reference

I explained that mastaba was an Arab word meaning bench.    From Wordnik.com.  [It Happened in Egypt] Reference

The small mastaba W. of Ka-mena's is of simpler construction.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Kab] Reference

To the west of this is the compound mastaba marked C in the plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Kab] Reference

The small mastaba (301) nearer the town wall was of more interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Kab] Reference

At El Kab they have been already mentioned as occurring in mastaba wells.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Kab] Reference

Like the tombs of Idi / Nekhty, Weni, and Iuu, this tomb is a mastaba style tomb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Egyptology News] Reference

No. 2 is a copy made by Miss Murray of the lid of a toilette-box found in a mastaba.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Kab] Reference

A video about the mastaba tomb of Unis-ankh at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Egypt tests DNA from fetuses in Tut's tomb] Reference

The Department of Egyptian Art is particularly well known for the Old Kingdom mastaba.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art] Reference

The Nubian who was stretched out on the mastaba behind it did not trouble to rouse himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [There was a King in Egypt] Reference

Inside the mastaba, a deep shaft is dug into the ground, with the burial chamber at the bottom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Egyptology News] Reference

The most important mastaba was that of Ka-mena (PL.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Kab] Reference

The mastaba before the shop was unoccupied.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mummy Case]

17 and 18 were found in a mastaba with Old Kingdom pots, and are probably also of that period.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Kab] Reference

Ka-mena, mastaba of 3.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Kab] Reference

No. 1 is a view of another mastaba.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Kab] Reference

The next mastaba (No, 288) was inside the town.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Kab] Reference

No. 4 shows a mastaba wall when just excavated.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Kab] Reference

From the mastaba of Rahotep in Meidum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Egyptology News] Reference

A mastaba 4 7.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Kab] Reference

Ka-mena mastaba 3 6.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Kab] Reference

Compound mastaba 4 8.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Kab] Reference

Empire by the same name: mastaba? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [It Happened in Egypt] Reference

The two little pots 56 (from mastaba C, PL.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Kab] Reference