Finally, the tunnels end several feet underground, in a burial chamber that is bare of all decoration and holds only an enormous granite sarcophagus that must have been lowered into the pit and the mastaba built around it. There were bones found here, but they were jumbled, and no one knows who was buried here.

Other mastabas nearby hold Prince Ra-Hotep, one of Sneferu’s sons, and his wife Nofret. Statues of the two can be seen in the museum. The “Maidum Geese” were found in the mastaba of Nefermaat. (Ithink that this may be the same person as Nofret…I’m trying to track that down.)