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- More Re Repairs To Pyramid Of Djoser
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- Poles Discover A Necropolis In Saqqara
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- Intact 4,500-year-old Tomb Found At Abusir
Earth Times Czech archeologists found an intact 4,500-year-old tomb chamber of an Egyptian dignitary in the Abusir Pyramids area, the Mlada Fronta Dnes daily reported Saturday. The Egyptologists discovered the bricked-up entrance to the four- by-two-metre...
- Restoring Djoser's Step Pyramid
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/841/he1.htm"The Step Pyramid complex stood untouched until the 17th century, when European travellers attempted to enter and explore its underground chambers. At the turn of the 19th century, shortly after the Napoleon...
Egypt
Restoring the pyramid of Djoser
Wales Online
DEEP in the world’s oldest pyramid, real-life Indiana Jones Peter James faced the prospect of thousands of tons of rock crushing him at any time.
The former Royal Navy lieutenant-commander – dubbed Indiana James by his team – was at the bottom of a 29-metre shaft where he was fighting to save the 4,700-year-old structure.
It was not a job for people who don’t like being boxed in.
The 68-year-old said: “If you went there in the dark and did not know what you were doing you would just fall down the shaft and splat at the bottom.
“And there must be a thousand metres of tunnels underneath.”
In the eight metre square room he and his four man team sat with the stone sarcophagus of Pharaoh Tjoser – built to house the remains of the ancient ruler.
The only way to reach the sarcophagus is to descend a specially built scaffold tower.
All the way down the surrounding walls are dotted entrances to mysterious tunnels.
One leads from one side of the pyramid to the other.
- More Re Repairs To Pyramid Of Djoser
BBC News (Neil Prior) If you had your Cardiff council house repaired in the early 80s, then the odds are that the work would have been inspected by the same man who has now been tasked with saving Egypt's oldest stone-built pyramid. Newport-based...
- So Where Are Anthony And Cleopatra?
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Advance warning - Indiana Jones reference. Cleopatra's curse hung over the ancient city of Taposiris Magna, 50km west of Alexandria, where excavators combed the sand last Saturday looking for her resting place with...
- Poles Discover A Necropolis In Saqqara
Nauka w Polsce The last season of the mission lead by Prof. Karol Myśliwiec, from the University of Warsaw's Mediterranean Archaeological Center, in Egypt ended with spectacular discoveries, that will help scientists understand procedures in preparing...
- Intact 4,500-year-old Tomb Found At Abusir
Earth Times Czech archeologists found an intact 4,500-year-old tomb chamber of an Egyptian dignitary in the Abusir Pyramids area, the Mlada Fronta Dnes daily reported Saturday. The Egyptologists discovered the bricked-up entrance to the four- by-two-metre...
- Restoring Djoser's Step Pyramid
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/841/he1.htm"The Step Pyramid complex stood untouched until the 17th century, when European travellers attempted to enter and explore its underground chambers. At the turn of the 19th century, shortly after the Napoleon...