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- In The Field: More About Giza Tombs
Egypt State Information Service A collection of tombs that belong to workers who built Khufu's pyramid has been discovered in the area of the workmen's tombs on the Giza plateau, Culture Minister Farouk Hosni announced on Sunday 10/1/2010. Hosni...
- In The Field: New Tombs Found At Saqqara
UPDATED (and still working my way through my various emails and alerts) Heritage Key (Sean Williams) With slideshows Two large tombs have been discovered at the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara - one of which is the largest ever found at the site....
- More Re New Tombs At Saqqara
guardians.net Zahi Hawass has updated his web pages with three photographs of the site. USA Today Dr. Aidan Dodson, a research fellow at the University of Bristol's Department of Archaeology and Anthropology in Bristol, England who was not involved...
- "gentrified" Egyptian Burial Chamber Discovered In Abusir
National Geographic A recycled burial chamber with unusual decorations has been discovered just south of Cairo, archaeologists announced today. The chamber may offer further proof of how the nobles of Egypt's 26th dynasty (664 to 525 B.C.) "gentrified"...
- Helwan Necropolis Attracts Egyptologists
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=20509 Terribly threatened by urban expansion, the immensely important site of Helwan continues to be the subject of study by Salima Ikram and her team under the direction...
Egypt
Ancient Egyptian cemetery larger than thought
Daily Star Regional
A pair of 4,300-year-old pharaonic tombs discovered at Saqqara indicate that the sprawling necropolis south of Cairo is even larger than previously thought, said Egypt's top archaeologist. The rock-cut tombs were built for high officials, one responsible for the quarries used to build the nearby pyramids and the other for a woman in charge of procuring entertainers for the pharaohs.
Egypt's antiquities capo, Zahi Hawass, described it as a "major, important discovery," saying that the two new tombs date "back to 4,300 years ago."
"The discovery of the two tombs is the beginning of a big, large cemetery," he said.
Indeed, the discovery indicates that there is even more to the vast necropolis of Saqqara located 19 kilometers south of the capital Cairo, he added.
- In The Field: More About Giza Tombs
Egypt State Information Service A collection of tombs that belong to workers who built Khufu's pyramid has been discovered in the area of the workmen's tombs on the Giza plateau, Culture Minister Farouk Hosni announced on Sunday 10/1/2010. Hosni...
- In The Field: New Tombs Found At Saqqara
UPDATED (and still working my way through my various emails and alerts) Heritage Key (Sean Williams) With slideshows Two large tombs have been discovered at the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara - one of which is the largest ever found at the site....
- More Re New Tombs At Saqqara
guardians.net Zahi Hawass has updated his web pages with three photographs of the site. USA Today Dr. Aidan Dodson, a research fellow at the University of Bristol's Department of Archaeology and Anthropology in Bristol, England who was not involved...
- "gentrified" Egyptian Burial Chamber Discovered In Abusir
National Geographic A recycled burial chamber with unusual decorations has been discovered just south of Cairo, archaeologists announced today. The chamber may offer further proof of how the nobles of Egypt's 26th dynasty (664 to 525 B.C.) "gentrified"...
- Helwan Necropolis Attracts Egyptologists
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=20509 Terribly threatened by urban expansion, the immensely important site of Helwan continues to be the subject of study by Salima Ikram and her team under the direction...