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> > > > > Even if every mastaba were originally a
> > tomb,
> > > > how
> > > > > would that show that the pyramids were
> > tombs?
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> > > > The pyramid evolved from the mastaba;
> > Djoser's
> > > > original mastaba evolved into a stepped
> > mastaba
> > > > and then with Sekhemkhet a square grounplan
> > was
> > > > used thus creating the first step pyramid.
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> > > That's a neat hypothesis, now how are you
> going
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> > > prove it?
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> > Not a hypothesis, just a statement of facts.
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> Djoser's pyramid was converted from a mastaba.
> The great pyramids were not converted from a
> mastaba.
> The great pyramids are very unlike Djosers
> pyramid.
> You're confusing evolution with conversion.
> Therefore the notion of pyramid by pyramid
> evolution is an unproven hypothesis and not a fact
> or proven theory.
> How are you going to prove that hypothesis?

If by great pyramids you mean those of the 4th dyn, they are just another step in pyramid evolution.
The Medum pyramid complex is the link between the step pyramid complex and the "true" pyramid complex.
The pyramid of Medum was originally a step pyramid but the other parts of the complex were something new, a blueprint if you like for all that followed untill the end of the OK; cult pyramid (first one ever, but a stepped one; only one of it's kind ), funerary chapel (evolved into temple), causway, valley temple.
Don't forget that this step pyramid was converted into a "true" pyramid.