sarcophagi

If the pyramids weren't intended to be tombs, you need to explain why they'd place sarcophagi inside them or explain how the sarcophagi are really something else.

What I remember most about the Walters is the marble Roman sarcophagi collection.

Consider how serious you take the curses that are on the outside of tombs and sarcophagi in Egypt.

We still have beautiful and colorful egyptian sarcophagi, which gives an insight on what they may have looked like.

If you're going to talk about how the impossible perfection of the sarcophagi at Saqqara means the Saites didn't produce them, for the sake of argument, fine.

Tellingly, the pyramids at Giza contain the same simple, unadorned carved granite sarcophagi you find in other Old Kingdom tombs.

That may apply to sarcophagi from ancient Egypt, but certainly does not apply to all artworks over 300 years old.

You want to use the refined, elaborately decorated Saite-period empty stone sarcophagi from Saqqara to suggest that the crude, unadorned stone sarcophagi of the Old Kingdom aren't really sarcophagi and the pyramids weren't tombs.

It's curious the Saqqara sarcophagi are empty, but given the texts inscribed, the simplest explanation is that they just were never used.

Then they found some 2500 yrs-old Byzantine sarcophagi, and, you may guess the rest...

They might be wrapping their nuclear power plants in sarcophagi a mile wide.

The most glaring example are the rectangular epaulets on funereal brasses and sarcophagi.

But you can't use the same reasoning to suggest the sarcophagi in the pyramids, which are by no means "marvels" of stonecraft, come from a different culture than the Old Kingdom.

But in the days of "as far back as we can go", the non-Pharoh common people weren't buried in air tight sarcophagi like just about everyone is today.

"One of the sarcophagi, made from stone, bears a long inscription".

The testnet Tomb for creating Sarcophagi, is out and running so you can give it a try at no real cost.