Saving the Step Pyramid
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Saving the Step Pyramid


King Djoser's step pyramid is to be laser scanned to aid in preserving the monument now and in the future.

http://www.guardians.net/hawass/Press%20Releases/laser_survey_step_pyramid.htm




- 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...

- Sixth Dynasty Pyramid Found
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- Laser Pyramid
Saqqara's landmark step pyramid is to be laser scanned to detect the condition of the structure but also so that in future years the process of erosion can be measured. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/902/he2.htm...

- New Discoveries At Saqqara
Recent discoveries around the Anubieion and a lost pyramid last visited by Karl Lepsius in the nineteenth century http://guardians.net/hawass/Press%20Releases/new_discoveries_at_saqqara_06-08.htm...



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