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- Hawass - Current News On Sites And Objects
drhawass.com Hawass comments about findings at Dashur, Abusir, and five objects recovered from the looting at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. On Sunday I went to Dahshur to visit my excavations in an area south of Saqqara. We began this work when satellite...
- Teaser - More Finds At Lahun?
Reuters Ayedi said Egypt would soon announce an additional significant find near the Lahun pyramid, once covered by slabs of white limestone, showing the site could date back to an earlier era thousands of years before previously thought. "The prevailing...
- More Re Lahun Finds
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A short summary of the recent finds made near Lahun. It took a couple of minutes for this page to load, but I left it to its own devices and it got there in the end. A large necropolis of 53 rock-hewn tombs of various...
- More Re Discoveries In The Faiyum
The Star Egyptian archeologists found the mummies in 53 tombs cut into rock in the oasis of Fayoum, about 80 kilometres southwest of Cairo, said Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, in a statement. Four of the...
- Granite Sarcophagus Of Senusret Ii Found (?)
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) On the above blog Vincent says that he's not sure what to make of this news release because Petrie examined the sarcophagus of Senusret II in detail in 1889. The news source was MENA. I've checked up on other sources...
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More re newest information from Lahun
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An ancient Egyptian tomb near the mud-brick pyramid of Lahun shows the site was used 1,000 years earlier than archaeologists previously thought.
The burial site, 130km (80 miles) south of Cairo, was previously dated to Pharaoh Senuseret II - 4,000 years ago.
It became well-known last month when a cache of mummies was found there.
But a chance discovery of a shard of pottery has led to evidence that Lahun was an important site 5,000 years ago - long before the pyramid was built.
Among the subsequent discoveries were an ancient staircase and a coffin.
The wooden box contains the remains of a man who died in his 40s - from the engravings on the item archaeologists say it was most likely a senior figure in the Egyptian government of the second dynasty.
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- Hawass - Current News On Sites And Objects
drhawass.com Hawass comments about findings at Dashur, Abusir, and five objects recovered from the looting at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. On Sunday I went to Dahshur to visit my excavations in an area south of Saqqara. We began this work when satellite...
- Teaser - More Finds At Lahun?
Reuters Ayedi said Egypt would soon announce an additional significant find near the Lahun pyramid, once covered by slabs of white limestone, showing the site could date back to an earlier era thousands of years before previously thought. "The prevailing...
- More Re Lahun Finds
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A short summary of the recent finds made near Lahun. It took a couple of minutes for this page to load, but I left it to its own devices and it got there in the end. A large necropolis of 53 rock-hewn tombs of various...
- More Re Discoveries In The Faiyum
The Star Egyptian archeologists found the mummies in 53 tombs cut into rock in the oasis of Fayoum, about 80 kilometres southwest of Cairo, said Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, in a statement. Four of the...
- Granite Sarcophagus Of Senusret Ii Found (?)
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) On the above blog Vincent says that he's not sure what to make of this news release because Petrie examined the sarcophagus of Senusret II in detail in 1889. The news source was MENA. I've checked up on other sources...