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Zahi Hawass has updated his web pages with three photographs of the site.
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- In The Field: More Re Saqqara Discoveries
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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 in the dig, said that while the tombs themselves aren't especially significant, the possibility of a much larger cemetary is.
"It shows that the blank areas of the maps of Saqqara aren't really empty at all. It's just that archaeologists haven't got round to digging them," he said.
Excavations have been going on at Saqqara for about 150 years, uncovering a vast necropolis of pyramids, tombs and funerary complexes mostly from the Old Kingdom, but including sites as recent as the Roman era.
But despite the years of excavation, new finds are constantly being made. In November, Hawass announced the discovery of a new pyramid at Saqqara, the 118th in Egypt, and the 12th to be found just in Saqqara.
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Thanks very much to Jonathan Calvert for the above link, which has a very useful video about the discovery, with Zahi Hawass talking at the site and showing the limited number of inscriptions and some of the tombs' features.
The contents of the newly found tombs have long since been stolen, Mr Hawass said.
The entrance of the tomb of the official in charge of music, Thanah, shows carved images of her smelling lotus flowers.
The other official whose tomb was discovered, Iya Maat, oversaw the extraction of granite and limestone from Aswan and other materials from the Western Desert for the construction of nearby pyramids.
- Two New Tombs Discovered In Saqqara
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El Aref) With photo. Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni has announced the discovery of two of the most important tombs ever found at Saqqara. The tombs dating from the Old Kingdom, which are in a part of the necropolis to the west...
- In The Field: More Re Saqqara Discoveries
RedOrbit Archaeologists hope to learn more about Egypt's middle class from two 2,500 year old tombs dug up near Cairo, according to Reuters. The tombs were found near the entrance to the archaeological site at the Saqqara burial ground. Dating from...
- In The Field: Saqqara Tombs Press Release From Sca
drhawass.com Two large 26th Dynasty tombs have been found in Saqqara by an Egyptian excavation mission from the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), Culture Minister Farouk Hosni announced today. Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the SCA and the...
- In The Field: More Re Saqqara Discoveries
BBC News (Yolande Knell) With photo Archaeologists in Egypt have said they have discovered the largest known tomb in the ancient necropolis of Sakkara, to the south of Cairo. The tomb dates back 2,500 years to the 26th Dynasty and contains important artefacts,...
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