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Restoration work will resume at Djoser Step Pyramid
Following a nine month pause, the restoration of the Djoser Step Pyramid at Saqqara necropolis will be resumed next week. The Supreme Council of Antiquities has provided an amount of LE3 million to resume the restoration work, from tickets purchases at archaeological sites and museums. This fund will be sufficient to complete the required restoration work... »
Saving the Step Pyramid of Djoser
Image via Wikipedia In a bid to preserve the 3,000-year-old Step Pyramid of Djoser, Cintec, a British engineering firm from South Wales has been called in to keep the pyramid standing, which almost collapsed in 1992 after being hit by an earthquake. The engineers will use self-inflating water-filled bags to bolster against the collapse of a... »
Archaeologists closing in on the lost tomb of a murderer pharaoh
A history as long as that of ancient Egypt must include an assassin who murders a ruler and becomes pharaoh, if only for a brief period. Such is the story of Userkare, second pharaoh of the 6th Dynasty who ruled between Teti and Teti’s son Pepi I. He took power after Teti was murdered, perhaps... »
30 mummies found in newly discovered tomb in Saqqara, Egypt
Twenty-two mummies were found in niches along the tomb’s walls of a storeroom inside a 2,600-year-old tomb during the latest round of excavations at the vast necropolis of Saqqara, west of Djoser’s step pyramid. The “storeroom for mummies” dates back to 640 B.C. during the 26th Dynasty, which was Egypt’s last independent kingdom before... »
