Plan of the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza in Egypt, showing the overall complex The pyramids of Egypt represent a progression and an evolution, both in religion and architecture, that is identifiable just about from beginning to end. This is not to say that we know all there is to know about these great monuments, but we do know and can pinpoint their elevation from the early mastaba tombs to the first step pyramids. We can see the early failures as the Egyptian's first attempted true pyramids, and we can also define their first successes, which included the Great Pyramids at Giza. Later, we find as the burial sarcophagus became almost embedded into the pyramids themselves, a religious progression towards Osirion mythology (Osiris was first and foremost a funerary god) that finally terminated with the last Pyramid of Ahmose I, founder of the New Kingdom, at Abydos. Throughout the history of the Egyptian pyramids, burials, or at least coffins or sarcophagi, have been found within the pyramids, including those at Giza.
It is true that the early pyramids were not formally inscribed, but they were also a part of larger complexes, including mortuary temples that were inscribed. In fact, there are even inscriptions of pyramid workers that provide us with some information even in the Great Pyramid. Furthermore, later pyramids were inscribed with various funerary texts.
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