Ancient Egyptian town rediscovered

[Brian G Turner]

Well, I'd love to see a History board here one day... ... so I thought I'd look for some archaeology news.

Here's a nice one this week about an important Egyptian town discovered near Saqqara - which if folks remember is the placement of the first pyramid, designed by Imotep.

 

[mac1]

Did anyone see live Egypt documentary on National Geographic the other night. They opened the oldest ever sealed sacofagus (someone help my spelling!!) live on TV. Also I dont know if you remember in about 97 or 98, they found a small tunnel coming out of the Queens Chamber of the Great Pyramid, that had a sealed door at the end of it, well they managed to look through that door (with a drilling robot) for the first time live on TV too. What they found was another door. They now need a robot that can completely remove both the first door and the newly found one, so they can hopefully get into, what is hopefully a completely untouched chamber, it is fascinating stuff.

 

[Brian G Turner]

I've seen the topic come up fleetingly - maybe the world of archaeology doesn't want to get into a flap about what may turn out to be a discovery of little significance.

But I'll see if I can track down something, and keep everyone up to date with the issue.

Ah, speaking of history, I've a castle to chase...

 

[Brian G Turner]

found something covering the secret chamber -

http://www.guardians.net/hawass/articles/secret_doors_inside_the_great_pyramid.htm