Talk:Mastaba

It may be my english that is not very good: but it is that right? "A cooler tomb (...) allowes the body to decompose"? I translate that like this: a body decomposes faster when is cool weather? But I think the opposite... is the hot weather that allowes a body to decompose faster?... Help me, and forgive me my bad english!

It would certainly seem reasonable that higher temperatures allowed for faster decomposition - where did this information come from? Mark Richards 20:31, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

It is from the page of Wikipedia "mastaba", at the end of the 2nd paragraph... Is that right? Or am I misunderstanding (I don't know if this word exists...) that?

Well, yes, I see that it's from the page Mastaba, I was wondering where the orginal poster (Lir), got the information. I have left a message on his talk page. Thanks for noticing this! By the way, you can sign your posts using four tilde characters like this: ~~~~ , it results in something like this: Mark Richards 20:46, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks! now I am logged in... I am writing the portuguese page of Mastaba and that information is usefull to me... ~~~~

Welcome! Re signatures - the nowiki tags turn off the tools, don't include them unless you are explaining the function to someone! Mark Richards 21:18, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

ok... thanks. Manuel Anastácio 21:20, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)~

If the temperature is hot enough, then water will evaporate. A lack of water will lead to mummification, instead of decomposition. Lirath Q. Pynnor

Isn't this essentially a function of Egypt's aridity? I mean, if you were to increase the heat in a tomb in a more moist climate, it would cause the body to decompose more quickly, wouldn't it? Maybe this is where the confusion here lies. Themill 10:02, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

The Relation to the Great Pyramids of Giza

From the design I see, wouldn't the Mastaba be an earlier example of the pyramids? (or present example, this is for a paper of mine) The sloping sides are the same, but the people who built the wonderful pyramids adapted to use stone instead of mud. Do you think they could have predicted that the stone would last longer?

4.156.99.109 00:53, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Possible vandalism?

At the bottom of the page is [[ČŏŎ|€Я]] which links to a non-existent page (ČŏŎ). Is this junk, or is it supposed to be readable in Egyptian or Unicode? Tocharianne 21:34, 17 December 2006 (UTC)