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Mark Heaton Wrote:
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> Thanks for that.
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> Its a pity that Waggy doesn't publish on Google
> Books which can be accessed without releasing
> personal profile and email as required by the
> academia site.
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> Mark
Hi Mark,
You can download any of my guides without registering with academia, by hitt
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waggy
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Hi Hans,
Hopefully in the future these sites can be revisited and we can clarify exactly how these sand boxes worked, along with the portcullises; though l fail to see how Monnier's design can work.
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waggy
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Ancient Egypt
Hi Pistol,
Many thanks for the info; yes l had come across the article, though must admit genealogy goes right over my head:-) Fair play to those trying to decipher these puzzles, can't be easy especially when names are reused: think l will stick to the bricks and mortar side of things:-)
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waggy
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Ancient Egypt
"Is the Great Pyramid the first pyramid with a granite chamber? " depends how you classify a chamber, the granite construction at the bottom of Djoser's pyramid perhaps?
The sarcophagus in mastaba 17, would appear to be contemporary to the pyramid next to it. Petrie states that the body of the mastaba was made from clean limestone chips, from the waste of the pyramid. Wainwright a
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waggy
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Mark Heaton Wrote:
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> Thanks for that. I presume Egyptologists are sure
> that the sarcophagus was not added at a later
> date.
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> Mark
Hard to see how it could be added at a later date, its a huge box that can't be inserted via the passages, and roofed by massive ceiling beams, all nicely topped off with a huge
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waggy
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Ancient Egypt
Mastaba 17, is to be found at Meidum, images of the sarcophagus can be found in my guide.
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waggy
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Hermione Wrote:
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> waggy Wrote:
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> > I just measured my inside leg and it happens to
> > agree with the inside depth of the sarcophagus,
> > strange or what:-)
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> So does this mean that you and Khufu share an
> inside leg measurement?
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waggy
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Ancient Egypt
I just measured my inside leg and it happens to agree with the inside depth of the sarcophagus, strange or what:-)
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waggy
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Ancient Egypt
You say "Khufu's sarcophagus may have been the first granite sarcophagus, but the walls of the King's Chamber prove that the masons could achieve flat surfaces, as do the internal surfaces of the sarcophagus itself, so the concavities of the external surfaces were certainly intended especially as it would have been possible to finish off as flat planes if that was the specification
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waggy
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Ancient Egypt
Yup, its about Khufu's sarcophagus.
Smyths tables and info on coffer can be found in 'life and work at the great pyramid, Vol II, pages 114 to 124
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waggy
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Ancient Egypt
I would be careful of using 22/7 and sphere as an explanation for the design of the sarcophagus.
This sarcophagus is by no means a fine piece of work, as Petrie points out it is not finely wrought and couldn't rival Khafre's. It would be nice to see a study done on the exceptional sarcophagi at Lahun.
Looking at Smyths tables we can have a difference in external lengths of up to 1.5
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waggy
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Ancient Egypt
I hate maths, but l dusted down some twenty odd year old notes on the sarcophagus. I converted Petrie and Smyths measures to digits, not allowing myself to go smaller than a third of a digit due to errors present. For the external l got 122 x 52.66 x 56 and internal 106 x 36.33 x 46.66. This would provide a very close approximation to interior volume being half of the solid box. If we take the si
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waggy
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Ancient Egypt
Hi all,
Many thanks for your kind comments. Lets hope that something is published on the new pyramid, though l am a bit pessimistic on that front.
Probably the strangest aspect of the substructure are the two long trenches in the chamber floor that lead to the sand box passages, they appear illogical, when we normally just see a square hole to allow a person entry. The central trench leading to
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waggy
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Ancient Egypt
Hi all,
Last guide for the year, a look at Ameny's pyramid and a brief look at the new pyramid discovered in 2017.
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waggy
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Ancient Egypt
Hans Wrote:
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> Great materials Waggy and a good read too. One
> follow on question about the 'ditch burials'.
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> "Princess Ita and Princess Khnoumit had been
> missed by the robbers" where are there remains
> now? A museum somewhere or left in situ?
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> Thanks
Hi Hans,
Sorry l have no idea were all these finds now resid
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waggy
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Hermione Wrote:
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> Over at Graham Hancock’s website, Freddy Silva
> has a new
> article recycling two classic claims.
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The author should have read my guide on the Osireion :-)
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waggy
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Ancient Egypt
Hi all,
I have just posted up latest guide, on the White pyramid of Amenemhat II.
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waggy
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Ancient Egypt
Hi all,
I have just posted up a guide on Mazghuna North.
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waggy
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Ancient Egypt
It is good news that they are starting to open more sites, which will undoubtably help their tourism. That said, in the case of the recently opened Lahun pyramid, l do have concerns that opening some structures can lead to unintentional consequences. In my guide to Lahun l did highlight the unusual amount of debris found piled inside the passages and chamber and whence was its origin.l believe al
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waggy
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Ancient Egypt
Great to see that the lahun pyramid is now open.
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waggy
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Ancient Egypt
cladking Wrote:
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> The level of detail in these is so good I would
> love to see guides for the more well traveled
> pyramids like G1 and the Step Pyramid.
I will do those structures eventually, but they have been done to death by so many, that l prefer to concentrate on the more neglected sites that get little attention. Th
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waggy
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Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals
Guide available for Mazghuna South, the north will be next.
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waggy
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Ancient Egypt
Many thanks for that. Though at the end of the documentary Zahi appears quite excited about finding what appears to be a possible wavy mud-brick wall, so it seems that something was built at the site; but clearly not south Magzhuna :-)
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waggy
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Hi all,
In 2011 a documentary called 'Egypts lost cities' was aired; it was mainly about space archaeology. In this documentary, they describe a lost pyramid, somewhere south of Khendjer's pyramid. Hawass started excavations which were stopped due to unrest in the country, though he managed to unearth mud brick wavy walls, similar to what we see at Mazghuna south. Does anyone kn
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waggy
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Ancient Egypt
Thanks, l was hoping that some further excavations had been done at the sites, but it seems we only have Mackay's report to go on.
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waggy
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Ancient Egypt
Hi all,
I am looking at doing guides on the Mazghuna pyramids. Other than Ernest Mackay's 1912 reports, does anyone know if any later articles were published on these pyramids?
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waggy
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Ancient Egypt
Hi all,
Many thanks for your comments, would respond sooner but so busy.
I refrain from mathematical models on the Bent, as there is no accurate internal survey to test possible models. The structure has been laser scanned inside and out, and its possible that an accurate survey could be published from such data sets,by someone who could get access to such data. I have a model that links a lo
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