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To: SunkenCiv
archaeologists from the SCA

I wasn't aware that the Society For Creative Anachronism was fielding archeological teams.

Last November, a 4,300-year-old pyramid in Saqqara -- the 118th in Egypt, and the 12th to be found at this site -- was uncovered, and in December, two new tombs were discovered near the current mummies' discovery.

As much as Saqqara has been studied, excavated, raided, tomb robbed, picked over, curried, combed, and groomed, it is simply amazing that they are still making important large finds there.

4 posted on 03/01/2009 11:01:39 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (If Liberalism doesn't kill me, I'll live 'till I die!)
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To: ApplegateRanch
The last of the 4th dynasty kings (if memory serves) built his mastaba there, after his immediate predecessors had left the Giza monuments to wow the world (also, Abu Roash, but the Djedjefre pyramid there wasn't finished, perhaps barely begun). I've often thought that the dynastic squabbles continued, and the Khufu descendants lost control of the area, then the 5th dynasty would have been in business such that the two dynasties overlapped a bit. Anyway, the first (and probably most effective) plunderers of the monuments of ancient Egypt were the ancient Egyptians themselves, so most of what is left is kinda ho-hum by comparison with Yuya and Tuya, Tut, and just a few other big caches discovered or rediscovered in modern times.
6 posted on 03/02/2009 2:09:07 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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