Battle over Khufu's death bed
Egypt

Battle over Khufu's death bed


http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/708/eg9.htm
"The ninth International Congress of Egyptologists in Grenoble was immersed in the debate over two French architects' claims of having located Khufu's sepulchral room in the Great Pyramid at Giza." A report on the press-heavy lecture by the two French architects at ICE9.




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