The Mastaba – not to be confused with Christo and Jeanne-Claude's temporary floating London Mastaba – was originally conceived by the artists back in 1977.

“The Mastaba” would comprise approximately 410,000 oil barrels arranged to form a trapezoidal pyramid that would rise nearly 500 feet in the air, the Guardian reported Saturday.

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The Mastaba chimes with Abu Dhabi's latest ambition to turn itself into a centre of art and culture. The emirate's rulers have approved a site near Liwa oasis, in the south-east of the United Arab ...

Christo and the late Jeanne Claude’s monumental floating sculpture, The London Mastaba, is a gift that will keep on giving, apparently. After the pyramid-like work of art—made of more than ...

Dr. Stephan Seidlmayer, former director of the German Archaeological Institute and head of the mission, pointed out that the mastaba is constructed with mud bricks and belonged to a man named Sneb-neb ...

The 4,000-year-old mastaba was built for a royal administrator and his priestess wife. A view of the partially excavated tomb. Photo: Egypt Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

A collection of 180 ancient Egyptian ushabti figurines and a limestone sarcophagus have been found in a mastaba tomb in Egypt's Dakahliya. During routine excavation work at Tel Tabla ...