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Actually this queen named Neith (or Nearit) is a wife of king Teti, the founder of the 6th dyn. The article in the OP is conflating two different things; the discovery of the pyramid tomb in 2008 and the identification of it's owner in 2021.
Back in 2008 Hawass claimed to have found the tomb of queen Sesheshet, Teti's mother. Teti's mother however was never a queen since she wa
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Charly
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Hi Keith,
The following article in the German magazine SOKAR might be usefull:
Arnold, Dieter, "Die Pyramide Sesostris'II bei El-Lahun", in SOKAR, nr 32, 2016, 50-62.
Since Guy Brunton in 1920 the interior of the pyramid hasn't been investigated. However on 24 september 2008 Dieter Arnold and Adela Oppenheim got permission for a short visit. Oppenheim made some photo&
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Charly
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Ancient Egypt
Thanks for the clarification and you're right; more samples should be taken, proposing a Middle kingdom date based on only one sample is a bit thin.
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Charly
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Ancient Egypt
Hi Keith, yet another excellent guide!
Just a remark about the Surface Luminescence dating; the sandstone samples do indeed point to reign of Seti I, but the granite samples (of the central pillars IIRC) point to the early Middle Kingdom. Not to the Old Kingdom as some Egyptologists suggested because of simmilarities with the Sphinx and Valley Temple of Khafre, but it still means that Seti I h
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Charly
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Ancient Egypt
Hi Spiros, when you say the pyramid encodes the number 5, do you refer to the number of secret chambers in the sanctuary of Thoth that Khufu wanted to incorporate in his pyramid according to the legend of the papyrus Westcar?
The secret number isn't revealed in this story but it is tempting to assume it is five since one of the titles of the architect of the GP, Hemiunu, is "greatest
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Charly
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Ancient Egypt
IIRC that's a tomb shaft from the Saite period.
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Charly
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Ancient Egypt
cladking Wrote:
> Mercer is easier for me since we both think like a
> 19th century scientist.
Wait a minute, you're always accusing Egyptology to be stuck in the 19th century and here you admit you think like a 19th century scientist!!??
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Charly
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cladking Wrote:
> There is no reason to expect any ramp builders
> whatsoever of any sort not because there were no
> ramps but because ramps were incidental to lifting
> stones up the pyramids. Of course someone was
> responsible for making the ramps that survive but
> these were nothing and they didn't use ramps to
> lift stones so there were no stone draggers.
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Charly
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Ancient Egypt
Hi Rick,
Not only is photography banned in the tombs (this has been the case for several years) but also in the valey itself; camera's can't be taken into the valey any more.
A photography ban has also been introduced in several museums where until recently you could take pictures such as the National Museum in Alexandria. Only in the newly opened Children's Museum I could take
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Charly
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Ancient Egypt
Over the last 20 years a lot more than 2 pyramids have been discovered (only not by Hawass)...
I wonder if the base of the anonymous pyramid in Saqqara Hawass mentiones is the same as the one in the documentary discovered by the infra-red satellite imaging.
I guess he's playing the "me too" game, I cannot immagine that Sarah Parcak as an archaeologist would forget to check disc
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Charly
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Hawass remains an expert of contradicting himself, did he not at the end of the documentary uncover the enclosure wall of a pyramid complex discovered with the satelite technology?
I don't think 17 pyramids is an exageration; Sarah Parcak stated that these 17 also included smaller pyramids of queens and princesses. Size, orientation, location and layout of the potential pyramid(-complexes
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Charly
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Ancient Egypt
Cladking wrote: "Someone either understands how the results of an excavation demonstrates what once stood on the site or one doesn't understand. If you understand then all you have to do is put that understanding into words and type it in response. I don't even really need references. If you understand something you don't need details and references. Yes, it could be establish
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Charly
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Cladking wrote: "I've tried reading some of this stuff including Arnold but it's a long way between facts and they don't seem to be very indicative of the conclusions. It relies heavily on scholarly opinion which is alright if you understand how they've reached such conclusions but I don't."
Well, maybe you should keep on reading more books on the subject un
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Charly
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Luckily there's the Giza Archives were you can download this excellent work for free:
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Charly
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O'Conner's point is that there is no reason to assume that with the immage of a stairway something else (a pyramid) is intended. It is just one of many (magical) ways to ascend to heaven. Since pyramids are actually mentioned in the PT, I personally see no reason either why they should be disguised as a stairway.
I agree that a step pyramid resembles a stairway but they were only buil
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Charly
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Cladking wrote: "Even if all the references to stairways, stairs, and ladders aren't references to pyramids it's still accurate to say that this work is intimately tied to pyramids."
David O'Connor makes some interesting remarks about Pyramids and Pyramid Texts in his new book "Abydos, Egypt's First Pharaohs and the Cult of Osiris", London, 2009, p.198-2
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Charly
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
In their secondairy function cult pyramids are considered to be Ka-houses. A statue of the king representing his Ka was probably burried in the cult pyramid. Thus the Ka of Khufu was housed in GId, the cult pyramid.
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Charly
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Pistol wrote: "Many evidences converge: Atum becomes Atum Re, ben-ben becomes bennu, Osiris and Isis...etc, these occur in the 5th dynasty..."
The oldest evidence for the presence of a cult of Re in Heliopolis date from the reign of Teti (6th dyn); fragment of an obelisk and the oldest high priest of Re (prior to the reign of Teti only high priests of Atum are known). It is highly p
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Hi Warwick
The early researchers claimed that a mysterious draft sometimes blew through the corridors of the Bent. Some egyptologists believe that still undiscoverd chambers could be at the origin of this phenomenon. IIRC Hawass even claims in his book "Mountains of the Pharao's" that Sneferu's final burial is located in an undiscovered chamber of this pyramid.
Personal
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Charly
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A good monography on the Middle Kingdom: "The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt" by Wolfram Grajetzki, London 2006, 208 pp.
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Charly
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Source: "Überreste von Königsmumien aus Pyramiden des Alten Reiches - Gibt es sie wirklich?" by Renate Germer in SOKAR nr. 7, 2003, p. 38.
She also mentions that the current whereabouts of the remains are not known.
In the literature list the following article is mentioned:
Batrawi, A. "The Skeletal Remains from the Northern Pyramid of Sneferu" in ASAE 51, 1951, p. 435-440
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Charly
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Actually the remains from the Red seem to date from a much later period, the techniques of mummyfication used are to advanced for the 4th dyn (resin substances in the skull).
The only remains of a mummy of a king burried in a pyramid that have been identified with some certainty are those of Djedkare Isesi (have been dated using C14).
The left hand of a mummy found in the pyramid of Neferefre
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Charly
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Don, several pyramid complexes were unfinished not just Menkaure's. Like jammer said, when a king died, construction of his pyramid complex simply stopped. In some cases the successor did some finishing touches in order to let the cult of the king take place. Mostly these were made in mud-brick (structures in the Menkaure complex which should have been made of limestone were built in mud-bri
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They did uncover the burial chamber recently, but found no inscription naming the owner.
see:
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If the pyramid belongs indeed to Sesheshet then it's not a queen's pyramid that has been discovered but the pyramid of a king's mother. Sesheshet was never married with a king and she didn't have a queen's title. Two other examples of king's mothers who are often called queens in literature are Hetepheres I and Khentkawes I, but a queen's title has never been fo
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Charly
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Ancient Egypt
The Sesostris Herodotus talks about seems to be Sesostris III:
"...he took a great army and marched over the continent, subduing every nation which stood in his way. Those of them whom he found valiant and fighting desperately for their freedom, in their lands he set up pillars which told by inscriptions his own name and the name of his country, and how he had subdued them by his power; b
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Charly
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The shabti in the picture is on display at the Louvre, it's indeed made of faience.
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The earliest examples of man-made glass date from the Middle-Kingdom (mostly beads), but some prefer to name it glassy faience. Depends on one's definition of "real" glass I guess.
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Charly
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Warwick wrote:
"why would someone inter an UPPERCLASS mummy in a despoiled Pyramid...What's hopes could they have possibly had for it not being desecrated???"
Hm, good point.
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