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Sahure: Death and Life of a Great Pharaoh
From June 24 to November 28, 2010 the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung will present the exhibition “Sahure – Death and Life of a Great Pharaoh.” Ruling Egypt from about 2428 to 2416 BC, Sahure was a both politically and culturally outstanding king of the Fifth Dynasty and thus a prominent representative of the Old Kingdom, the “Age... »
German museum will loan Hemiunu statue to Egypt
The Roman and Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim, Germany confirmed plans to lend its greatest treasure, the seated statue of Hemiunu, to Egypt for the 2013 opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza near Cairo. Hemiunu, a vizier under the 4th Dynasty, is believed to have been the architect of the Great Pyramid of Khufu... »
Could Imhotep be buried under the Step Pyramid of Djoser?
Image via Wikipedia Djoser permitted 11 of his daughters to be buried in his pyramid, which makes the Step Pyramid the only pyramid of the Old Kingdom that was used for the burial of the king and his royal family. Why not also allow his architect Imhotep to be buried with him? Could it be... »
Poles discover a necropolis in Saqqara
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 graves in the time of the Old Kingdom. The archaeologists also have found new aspects of burial rituals. The excavation zone... »
Ancient statue discovered near Egyptian pyramid
A 1.5 meter (5 feet) high 4,000-year-old quartz statue has been discovered buried just 40 centimetres (16 inches) below the surface of the sand in the northern part of the pyramid of pharaoh Menkaure (2551-2523 BC). Amazingly, the lifesize statue was not found during an archaeological excavation, but by maintenance workers cleaning an area... »
Egypt's first history book
The so-called Palermo Stone is the largest and best preserved fragment of a rectangular slab of basalt known as the Royal Annals of ancient Egypt’s Old Kingdom. Its origin is unknown, but it may have come from a temple or another important building. The stone has been in Palermo in Sicily — hence its name... »
5th Dynasty tombs found in Saqqara, Egypt
Image via Wikipedia Two ancient Egyptian tombs dating back 4,300 years discovered at Saqqara indicate that the sprawling necropolis south of Cairo is even larger than previously thought, according to Egypt’s top archaeologist Zahi Hawass. The rock-cut tombs were built for high officials — a man named Iya-Maat, described as the overseer of the quarries... »
Egypt: 4,300-year-old pyramid discovered
Image via Wikipedia Archaeologists have discovered a new pyramid under the sands of Saqqara, an ancient burial site that remains largely unexplored and has yielded a string of unearthed pyramids in recent years. The 4,300-year-old monument most likely belonged to the queen mother of the founder of Egypt’s 6th Dynasty, several hundred years after the... »
Long-missing pyramid rediscovered at Saqqara
In 1842, German archaeologist Karl Richard Lepsius mentioned a pyramid among his finds at Saqqara, giving it number 29 and calling it the “Headless Pyramid” because its top was missing. Since then, the desert sands covered Lepsius’ discovery, and no archaeologist had been able to locate it. Until now. Non other than Zahi Hawass, the Supreme... »
