sentences:  Like Pharaohs, rulers of the Oryx nome were deeply concerned with their lives after death.Because the pyramid building age was over or maybe because they could not afford to construct their own pyramids, the rulers of Mena'at Khufu chose the limestone cliffs of the eastern desert overlooking a gentle curve in the Nile as an ideal spot on which to carve their tombs.These chapel-tombs at Beni Hasan are the only remnant of the era when Minya rulers wielded power and wealth.