Egypt
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 engineer and surveyor from Edinburgh, said the road was the main ceremonial route lined with ornate sphinxes leading to the underground burial complex of the Serapeum in Saqqara".
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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...
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More Re Possible Location Of Tomb Of Imhotep
huliq.com This is a story from earlier this year, but the Huliq site has just picked up on it, so here it is again for anyone who missed it the first time. Ian Mathieson believes that his team may have discovered where the deified architect Imhotep was...
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New Url For Saqqara/imhotep Story
A few days ago I posted an extract from a piece that appeared on the Sunday Post website about Ian Matheson's hopes for the discovery of the tomb of Imhotep. Unfortunately, the original URL for this story has now expired. However Chris Townsend has...
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Close To Finding Imhotep At Saqqara?
The original URL for this story has now expired (Sunday Post). However Chris Townsend has pointed out that another web page is now available with this story: http://rense.com/general79/imhotep.htm Unfortunately, expiring URLs are a hazard of blogging,...
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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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