Egypt
- Saqqara.nl
saqqara.nl Including the 2009 dig diaries. Welcome to Saqqara.nl A visitor to the site before 1975 would have viewed a landscape uncluttered by monuments of any kind ... An observant visitor might have noticed rough rectangular depressions in the sand:...
- New Url For Saqqara/imhotep Story
A few days ago I posted an extract from a piece that appeared on the Sunday Post website about Ian Matheson's hopes for the discovery of the tomb of Imhotep. Unfortunately, the original URL for this story has now expired. However Chris Townsend has...
- Daily Photo - Items From The Imhotep Museum, Saqqara
As today's main story takes place in Saqqara, with the discovery of a new tomb, here are a couple of photographs from the fabulous Imhotep Museum at Saqqara (and my thanks for the Museum's permission to take photographs there in 2006). Faience...
- Engine Vibrations Damage Step Pyramid
http://tinyurl.com/zkk7u (motoring.co.za) A South African motoring ezine is the last place I would have expected to find an item about the Saqqara Step Pyramid, but here it is all the same: "Idling vehicles have been banned in Saqqara, south-west of Cairo,...
- Amhoteb Museum Opens Next Month
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o090825f.htm "Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni will open early next month Amhoteb Museum in Saqqara, Giza. Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) Zahi Hawas said the museum will be the first of...
Egypt
Imhotep Museum in Saqqara
http://tinyurl.com/g2lha (Egypt State Information Service)
"Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak and Mrs. Bernadette Chirac, Thursday co-inaugurated Amenhotep [should read Imhotep] Museum at Saqqara area, situated on the West Bank of the river Nile, about 30 km south of Cairo. The Ministry of Culture has modernized the museum in tribute to Amenhotep, who was the chief architect to the Third Dynasty King Djoser (2687-2668 BC). Mrs. Mubarak and the French first lady toured the museum's various halls and watched a film about the history of Saqqara area. They also made a tour of the Step Pyramid plateau, the causeway, the Serapeum: a gallery of tombs, Saqqara North and Saqqara South. In addition to Djoser's, there are another 16 pyramids on the site, in various states of preservation or dilapidation."
"Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak and Mrs. Bernadette Chirac, Thursday co-inaugurated Amenhotep [should read Imhotep] Museum at Saqqara area, situated on the West Bank of the river Nile, about 30 km south of Cairo. The Ministry of Culture has modernized the museum in tribute to Amenhotep, who was the chief architect to the Third Dynasty King Djoser (2687-2668 BC). Mrs. Mubarak and the French first lady toured the museum's various halls and watched a film about the history of Saqqara area. They also made a tour of the Step Pyramid plateau, the causeway, the Serapeum: a gallery of tombs, Saqqara North and Saqqara South. In addition to Djoser's, there are another 16 pyramids on the site, in various states of preservation or dilapidation."
This is the full item on the State Information Service website.
- Saqqara.nl
saqqara.nl Including the 2009 dig diaries. Welcome to Saqqara.nl A visitor to the site before 1975 would have viewed a landscape uncluttered by monuments of any kind ... An observant visitor might have noticed rough rectangular depressions in the sand:...
- New Url For Saqqara/imhotep Story
A few days ago I posted an extract from a piece that appeared on the Sunday Post website about Ian Matheson's hopes for the discovery of the tomb of Imhotep. Unfortunately, the original URL for this story has now expired. However Chris Townsend has...
- Daily Photo - Items From The Imhotep Museum, Saqqara
As today's main story takes place in Saqqara, with the discovery of a new tomb, here are a couple of photographs from the fabulous Imhotep Museum at Saqqara (and my thanks for the Museum's permission to take photographs there in 2006). Faience...
- Engine Vibrations Damage Step Pyramid
http://tinyurl.com/zkk7u (motoring.co.za) A South African motoring ezine is the last place I would have expected to find an item about the Saqqara Step Pyramid, but here it is all the same: "Idling vehicles have been banned in Saqqara, south-west of Cairo,...
- Amhoteb Museum Opens Next Month
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o090825f.htm "Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni will open early next month Amhoteb Museum in Saqqara, Giza. Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) Zahi Hawas said the museum will be the first of...