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Huge 4000-year-old Underground Hidden Tomb of Cult Egyptian King Senwosret III Will Soon Open...[tr]
Ancient Origins ^ | June 19, 2017 | Theodoros Karasavvas

Posted on 07/03/2019 9:22:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

The tomb of King Khakaure Senusret III (Senwosret III), one of the most dominant and popular pharaohs of ancient Egypt's Middle Kingdom, is set to open to the public within a couple of years. This will provide an opportunity for visitors to descend into the underground chambers and marvel at the architecture of the Egyptian builders who constructed the burial complex nearly four thousand years ago... According to Dr. Josef Wegner, Associate Curator of the Egyptian Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, who has been excavating in Abydos for decades, this is the largest tomb at Abydos and dates back to 1850 BC. The tomb measures 200 meters (656 ft) in length and 45 meters (148 ft) deep and its architecture is one of a kind.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: 12thdynasty; 13thdynasty; 2ndip; abydos; abydosdynasty; anubismountain; egypt; godsgravesglyphs; josefwegner; khakauresenusretiii; kingtut; middlekingdom; pharaoh; pharaohsenebkay; senebkay; senwosretiii; sobekhotepiv; woseribresenebkay
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To: CJ Wolf

No wonder Napolean’s army shot the Sphinx’ face off.


21 posted on 07/04/2019 9:43:35 AM PDT by seowulf
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To: tired&retired
Wow, I'd not noticed that. Probably was "pharaoh's cult center" and poor editing meeting up at a bad time.

22 posted on 07/04/2019 10:52:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: CJ Wolf
"What's a 'Helen Thomas', dad?"

23 posted on 07/04/2019 10:56:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: sauropod
It's possible that he's gotten too old and ill to be involved. It's also possible that his getting in the way of the muon study of the Great Pyramid was too humiliating and embarrassing for Egyptologists to tolerate any longer. It's also possible that he's spending all his time trying to **** up something else. He really, really wants to find an unplundered tomb in the KV.

24 posted on 07/04/2019 11:04:58 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Captain Rhino
Thanks! Wegner tells Popular Archaeology. I found that one first, but on the poor old long-suffering hardware I'm using, I couldn't view the graphics, so I used the other one.

25 posted on 07/04/2019 11:08:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: thinden
one more:
The recently revealed massive tomb complex of Senwosret III, showing well-dressed masonry. Credit: Josef Wegner and the Penn Museum

The recently revealed massive tomb complex of Senwosret III, showing well-dressed masonry (Credit: Josef Wegner and the Penn Museum )

26 posted on 07/04/2019 11:09:30 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

27 posted on 07/04/2019 11:14:32 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: SunkenCiv

Of course he does. He’s like a televangelist (think Benny Hinn or Swaggert or...).


28 posted on 07/04/2019 11:46:12 AM PDT by sauropod (Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
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To: SunkenCiv
surprisingly skilled craftsmanship & engineering to me?
29 posted on 07/04/2019 11:48:19 AM PDT by thinden
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To: thinden
If they'd built the houing like that, they'd still be living in it. :^)

30 posted on 07/04/2019 12:29:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: sauropod
:^)

31 posted on 07/04/2019 6:02:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Where is Zahi Hawass?.....................


32 posted on 07/08/2019 6:44:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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