Lost Rooms Have Suddenly Appeared in an Ancient Egyptian Pyramid
Through restoration work on the 4,400-year-old Pyramid of Sahura, researchers have discovered previously unknown chambers likely used as storage rooms.
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Through restoration work on the 4,400-year-old Pyramid of Sahura, researchers have discovered previously unknown chambers likely used as storage rooms.
Archaeologists with the Czech Institute of Egyptology, a department within the Charles University in Prague, have rediscovered a lost tomb containing a mummy. The tomb belonged to an ancient Egyptian official named Ptahshepses, who lived around
Cheap construction reduced the monument at Abusir in Egypt to rubble over millennia.
The eight rooms were likely used to store funerary equipment for Sahura, the second pharaoh of the Fifth Dynasty.
Archaeology Egyptologists Have Revealed Eight New Chambers in the Pyramid of Sahura, Putting a Years-Long Dispute to Rest The discovery will...