Egypt
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus)
With photos and map.
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- Visiting Dashur
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Egypt
Why did Senfru build four pyramids?
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus)
Hi Owen. I'm at a conference this week and unless things are spoon fed to me via email they won't be posted til next week - so thank you for the link!
With photos and map.
Nearly 4,600 years ago a third dynasty pharaoh named Snefru launched one of the greatest construction projects in human history.
He decided, for reasons that are unknown to us, to build four pyramids scattered at different places across Egypt. He constructed two of them at Dashur (the Red and Bent pyramids), one at Meidum and another at a place called Seila. Together they used up more material than Khufu’s pyramid at Giza.
Casing stones were used to give them a smooth appearance – in other words make them into “true pyramids." This was the first time in Egyptian history that this was done.
Today a team from Brigham Young University, in Utah, is investigating these pyramids, trying to figure out why Snefru would build four of them in the way he did.
One of the puzzles the team is trying to decipher involves a cemetery not far from the Seila Pyramid. It’s a 40 minute hike away and research indicates that it has an enormous number of mummies. “We estimate over a million bodies in this cemetery,” said Professor Kerry Muhlestein in an interview with Heritage Key. It’s “very very densely populated by mummies.”
- 400 Impoverished Burials Found At Giza
Unreported Heritage News (Owen Jarus) Owen Jarus has reported on findings announced at the Atlanta conference, which he attended. Great story Owen! At a scholarly conference in Atlanta archaeologists announced that the burials of 400 people – dating...
- Byu Team Digs Up Ancient Egyptian Mummies
Universe (Angela Berrett) BYU students and professors have been excavating a cemetery near the Seila pyramid in Egypt, containing more than one million mummies, most of which are likely Christian, according to BYU professor C. Wilfred Griggs. "[The team...
- Cemetery Of The Pyramid Builders
Asharq Alawsat (Zahi Hawass) I still consider the discovery of the Cemetery of the Pyramid Builders to be one of the greatest archaeological achievements, and personally speaking this ranks as one of my most precious discoveries. This is because prior...
- Lecture Report: Excavations At Djedfre's Pyramid, Abu Roash
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus) With photos Dr Michel Baud of the Louvre Museum in Paris gave an interesting lecture last week about his excavations of a pyramid at Abu Roash. The monument was badly preserved and its stone had been quarried in Roman times,...
- Visiting Dashur
http://tinyurl.com/ct8zz A travel article about the benefits of taking the time to visit Dashur: "Nothing can dispel the wonder of the majestic pyramids at Giza, outside of Cairo--but the KFC and Pizza Hut across the street come pretty close. Then there...