Egypt
Saqqara's landmark step pyramid is to be laser scanned to detect the condition of the structure but also so that in future years the process of erosion can be measured.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/902/he2.htm
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Egypt
Laser Pyramid
Saqqara's landmark step pyramid is to be laser scanned to detect the condition of the structure but also so that in future years the process of erosion can be measured.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/902/he2.htm
- More Re 3-d Model Of Saqqara Step Pyramid
PR Web Ancient Egypt Research Associates, Inc., the premier non-profit organization conducting original archaeological research and educational programs in Egypt, has collaborated with Egyptian and Japanese research and technology teams to generate the...
- Mapping Djoser's Step Pyramid
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) I have a horrid impression that this has article already been posted on the blog, but a search through both Ben's posts and mine has failed to discover an exact duplicate. So here it is, and apologies if you've...
- Laser Survey To Be Performed On The Step Pyramid At Saqqara
guardians.net Thanks very much to Rick Menges for sending me the above link. It is a press release but there's no date on it. H.E. Farouk Hosni, Minister of Culture, announced that the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), in collaboration with...
- Daily Photo - Saqqara
Another set of photographs from Rick Menges, who was in the Cairo area in November 2007, with my thanks. I particularly like the photograph of the step pyramid with the row of cobra in the foreground. Saqqara step pramid with row of cobras Excavations...
- Zahi Hawass, Dig Days Column
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/766/he2.htmIn Hawass's regular Dig Days piece, this week entitled Adventures in the Step Pyramid, Hawass describes entering one of the Queens' pyramids located south of the Menkaure Pyramid at Giza, and the Step...