It is one of the greatest enigmas of the Old Kingdom. Following the stunning engineering and organizational feat of the Great Pyramid of Giza, something unexpected happened. Instead of continuing and perfecting this formula, subsequent pyramids became... smaller and smaller. Why, after reaching the zenith, did Khufu’s successors, his son and grandson, and later the pharaohs of the 5th and 6th Dynasties, begin to drastically and systematically reduce the scale of their monuments?
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