Egypt
Video: Treasures discovered in Egypt
BBC News (Christian Fraser)
Thanks to Vincent Brown's Talking Pyramids blog for highlighting this video. It lasts for over two minutes and offers a short overview of some recent discoveries and some ongoing problems in Egyptian archaeology. There's some nice footage, if brief, of some of the Saqqara sites including the shaft beneath the newly discovered pyramid and the interior of the Step Pyramid of Djoser.
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Video Of The Tunnels Beneath The Step Pyramid
MSNBC Video MSNBC were taken into the 5 miles of the Step Pyramid's subterranean tunnels by Zahi Hawass before he lost his position. A lot of scaffolding! Very upbeat and excitable, but it has some really fascinating footage. Not sure...
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The View From Planet Hawass
The following is a summary of the main news items from Zahi Hawass's website over the previous few weeks. The most recent item is at the top of the post. If some of these are duplicates of earlier posts I apologise - these were picked up by Google...
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Video Report: Saqqara
WishTV.com Terrific footage from inside and underneath the Step Pyramid of Djoser. Just over six minutes long. And not a hard hat in sight. Just south of Cairo, in an area known as Saqqara, there is something that has just been uncovered and a 24-Hour...
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More Evidence Of Secret Passages In The Great Pyramid
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) Vincent has picked up on a video on the National Geographic website: National Geographic has posted a video to their YouTube channel today that presents supporting evidence of Jean Pierre Houdin’s internal spiral ramp...
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Secret Chamber Discovered In The Great Pyramid
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) Breaking in the news this morning was the announcement of a new discovery: Egyptologist Bob Brier has discovered a hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid! Apparently the discovery was made while investigating the merits...
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