Egypt
Heritage Key (Ann Wuyts)
With photos.
- Deciphering The Pyramid Texts Of Behenu
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) With photos and diagrams. Following on from Thursday’s post I’d like to focus a bit more on the Pyramid Texts found in Queen Behenu’s recently discovered burial chamber. Offering texts on the north wall of the Unas...
- Hieroglyphs From The Tomb Of Queen Behenu
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) One loaf of bread and one jug of beer: that's what Egypt's Queen Behenu was offered during her funeral, according to a translation of hieroglyphics engraved on white stone found in her 4,000-year-old burial chamber...
- Momentous New Finds
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A good round up of the two most recent discoveries. A colossal head of Tutankhamun's grandfather in Luxor and the burial chamber of Queen Behenu of the Sixth Dynasty in Saqqara are the latest antiquities discovered...
- Ancient Egyptian Gold Found In Luxor By Spanish Archaeologists
Bloomberg Spanish archaeologists digging on the west bank of Luxor, Egypt, have discovered jewelry in a tomb of a state treasurer who lived some 3,500 years ago under the reign of Queen Hatshepsut. The team found five gold earrings and two gold...
- Round Up Of Finds
Here we have Al Ahram's coverage of the recent find of the burial of the kings wife Behenu wife of probably one of the Pepi's of dynasty six. The article also talks about the recent find of that wonderful red Granite head of Amenhotep III in the...
Egypt
Queen Behenu's burial chamber discovered at Saqqara
Heritage Key (Ann Wuyts)
With photos.
A French archaeological team digging at Saqqara has discovered the burial chamber of 6th Dynasty Queen Behenu, wife of either Pepi I or Pepi II. The burial chamber was revealed while the team was cleaning the sand from Behenu's pyramid in the area of el-Shawaf in South Saqqara, west of the pyramid of King Pepi I.
The burial chamber uncovered by the French mission is badly damaged, apart from two inner walls which contain engraved Pyramid Texts. Those texts were widely used in royal tombs – carved on walls as well as sarcophagi - during the 5th and 6th Dynasties (circa 2465-2150BC).
- Deciphering The Pyramid Texts Of Behenu
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) With photos and diagrams. Following on from Thursday’s post I’d like to focus a bit more on the Pyramid Texts found in Queen Behenu’s recently discovered burial chamber. Offering texts on the north wall of the Unas...
- Hieroglyphs From The Tomb Of Queen Behenu
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) One loaf of bread and one jug of beer: that's what Egypt's Queen Behenu was offered during her funeral, according to a translation of hieroglyphics engraved on white stone found in her 4,000-year-old burial chamber...
- Momentous New Finds
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A good round up of the two most recent discoveries. A colossal head of Tutankhamun's grandfather in Luxor and the burial chamber of Queen Behenu of the Sixth Dynasty in Saqqara are the latest antiquities discovered...
- Ancient Egyptian Gold Found In Luxor By Spanish Archaeologists
Bloomberg Spanish archaeologists digging on the west bank of Luxor, Egypt, have discovered jewelry in a tomb of a state treasurer who lived some 3,500 years ago under the reign of Queen Hatshepsut. The team found five gold earrings and two gold...
- Round Up Of Finds
Here we have Al Ahram's coverage of the recent find of the burial of the kings wife Behenu wife of probably one of the Pepi's of dynasty six. The article also talks about the recent find of that wonderful red Granite head of Amenhotep III in the...