{"id":2133,"date":"2014-02-28T13:46:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T21:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2014-02-28T13:46:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T21:46:31","slug":"masseteb-qilaal-daba-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?p=2133","title":{"rendered":"Masseteb Qila&#8217;al-Dab&#8217;a &#8211; Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John,<\/p>\n<p>I deposited a Sam Stone in the Western Desert, at Masseteb Qila&#8217;al-Dab&#8217;a &#8211; ust putside Balat in the Dakhla Oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>This is a Mastaba, which is a type of ancient Egyptian tomb in the form of a flat-roofed, rectangular structure with outward sloping sides where early kings were buried before the Pyramids and the underground tombs in the Valley of the Kings.\u00a0 Mastabas were usually constructed out of mud-bricks and were used for burial of nobles long after kings were buried in pyramids.<\/p>\n<p>The mastaba is located at 25 33 23 N, 29 16 48E<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Masseteb Qila'al-Dab'a - Egypt\" alt=\"Masseteb Qila'al-Dab'a - Egypt\" src=\"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014-02-13-13.49.56.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Masseteb Qila'al-Dab'a - Egypt\" alt=\"Masseteb Qila'al-Dab'a - Egypt\" src=\"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014-02-13-13.50.27.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Masseteb Qila'al-Dab'a - Egypt\" alt=\"Masseteb Qila'al-Dab'a - Egypt\" src=\"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014-02-13-13.50.08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hugh Varilly<br \/>\nDirector, Varilly Associates Limited<br \/>\nRAEng Visiting Professor, UCL<br \/>\nPhone: +44 7967 275955<br \/>\nemail: Hugh_Varilly@live.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John, I deposited a Sam Stone in the Western Desert, at Masseteb Qila&#8217;al-Dab&#8217;a &#8211; ust putside Balat in the Dakhla Oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt. This is a Mastaba, which is a type of ancient Egyptian tomb in the form of a flat-roofed, rectangular structure with outward sloping sides where early kings were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-placed-samstone"],"geo":{"latitude":25.5646439,"longitude":29.2439175,"description":"Al Kharga - Asyout, Qesm Al Wahat Ad Dakhlah, New Valley Governorate, Egypt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2137,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions\/2137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}