Egypt
Restoring Saqqara
This is a short article on restoration work being done at Saqqara particularly at the step pyramid and at the Serapeum.
http://drhawass.com/blog/restoring-saqqara
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Saving The Step Pyramid
drhawass.com Zahi Hawass talking about the Step Pyramid. I don't know how long this page has been up but I hadn't seen it before so it may be that others haven't seen it either. Thanks to Fred Sierevogel for pointing me at it. Today, the Step...
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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...
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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...
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Seven-mile Ceremonial Burial Route Located
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1929852005m "Ian Mathieson, 78, director of Saqqara Geophysical Survey Project, has located part of a seven-mile ceremonial burial route to the Step Pyramid of Djoser, near Cairo. . . . Mr Mathieson, a former civil...
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Djoser's Pyramid
Here Dr. Hawass announces recent discoveries near the step pyramid. http://drhawass.com/blog/press-release-new-discoveries-saqqara...
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