The pyramids of ancient Egypt and Sudan have long been associated ... elite individuals in order to reinforce a hierarchical social order,” Schrader said in an interview. Stuart Tyson Smith ...

Historians have long assumed that ancient Egyptian pyramids were constructed primarily for ... To this end, they may have imposed a “hierarchical social order on the sacred landscape of the cemetery,” ...

The pyramids of ancient Egypt and Sudan may not have been just ... This finding suggests that "social classes were not segregated, but instead that a hard laboring non-elite were buried alongside ...