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Pyramid of MenkaureA great gash was made in the northern side of the pyramid during the Mamaluke era, in the 12th century AD, but the first Europeans to enter the monument were Perring and Vyse in 1837, who found a basalt sarcophagus which was shipped off to England in the Beatrice - only to meet with the disastrous fate of being lost at sea when the ship was wrecked in the Mediterranean... Other recent excavations around the pyramid of Menkaure have been conducted by the Egyptian Antiquities Organisation in search of evidence of the king's funerary boats and the pyramid's construction ramp. They have discovered an unfinished double-statue of Rameses II, sculpted from a single block of stone and measuring over 3m tall - the first large New Kingdom statues to be discovered at Giza, and yet another mystery.
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first mentioned it here, figured it could make a nice topic on its own.
A Sunken Warship Sets Off a New Mediterranean Battle
The New York Times | January 28, 2006 | By WILLIAM J. BROAD
Posted on 01/28/2006 2:16:25 PM PST by aculeus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1567030/posts?page=10#10
Sarcophagus is one of my favorite words, though I am not nearly so fond of esophagus - go figure. Asaparagus is great, while humonguous (sp?) is lame.