Egypt
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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.
- Mapping Djoser's Step Pyramid
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) I have a horrid impression that this has article already been posted on the blog, but a search through both Ben's posts and mine has failed to discover an exact duplicate. So here it is, and apologies if you've...
- A Documentary Film Of Djoser Pyramid To Be A Reference To All Archaeologists
Egypt State Information Service "Egypt plans to make a documentary film of Pyrmaid of Djoser, Egypt's first step pyramid, using a three-dimensional technique to be a reference to all archaeologists," Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said Monday9/6/2008....
- Laser Survey To Be Performed On The Step Pyramid At Saqqara
guardians.net Thanks very much to Rick Menges for sending me the above link. It is a press release but there's no date on it. H.E. Farouk Hosni, Minister of Culture, announced that the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), in collaboration with...
- 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...
- Saving The Step Pyramid
An article from Dr. Hawass on the rising ground water and the damages being caused to Djoser's pyramid and the work being done to save the pyramid. http://drhawass.com/blog/saving-step-pyramid...
Egypt
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 Pyramid complex is visited by thousands of tourists every year. The relentless force of the desert wind over the millennia, combined with increasing underground moisture as the water table rises all over Egypt, have weakened this incredible monument. Jean Philippe Lauer, a French architect and Egyptologist who worked at Saqqara for over 70 years, did a great deal of restoration work in the complex. It was clear, however, that further action was needed, and that if we did not do something soon, there might be little left for visitors to enjoy within just a few decades.
In 2008, the SCA organized a major conservation effort, carried out by an all-Egyptian team. I appointed talented archaeologists, architects, and restorers, giving each of them a job description covering the duration of the project. Soil mechanic Dr. Hassan Fahmy of Cairo University joined the team, in order to help us understand and combat the environmental forces threatening the underground galleries and passages. Archaeology and conservation are complimentary aspects of the project, as we must understand the monument in order to develop the best plan for restoring it.
- Mapping Djoser's Step Pyramid
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) I have a horrid impression that this has article already been posted on the blog, but a search through both Ben's posts and mine has failed to discover an exact duplicate. So here it is, and apologies if you've...
- A Documentary Film Of Djoser Pyramid To Be A Reference To All Archaeologists
Egypt State Information Service "Egypt plans to make a documentary film of Pyrmaid of Djoser, Egypt's first step pyramid, using a three-dimensional technique to be a reference to all archaeologists," Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said Monday9/6/2008....
- Laser Survey To Be Performed On The Step Pyramid At Saqqara
guardians.net Thanks very much to Rick Menges for sending me the above link. It is a press release but there's no date on it. H.E. Farouk Hosni, Minister of Culture, announced that the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), in collaboration with...
- 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...
- Saving The Step Pyramid
An article from Dr. Hawass on the rising ground water and the damages being caused to Djoser's pyramid and the work being done to save the pyramid. http://drhawass.com/blog/saving-step-pyramid...