Eastern Cemetery

The Giza Necropolis Cemetery is the large western, eastern cemetery and there is also a third small cemetery that is next to the pyramid of Cheops. To the east of the pyramid you can see the sons and daughters, with mastabas, monumental stone tombs indicating their rank in Egyptian society. In the eastern cemetery we got to see where very important members were buried from the court were buried of Pharaoh, judges, ministers, and the architects who built the pyramids. The best preserved include the tombs of Qar, Idu, Khufukhaf, and Meresankh III.