New Pyramid Discovered in Egypt

[Judi Lynn]

New Pyramid Discovered in Egypt

Earlier this week the interior structure of pyramid was uncovered at the Dahshur Necropolis, home to some of Egypt’s earliest pyramids



Entrance into the newly discovered pyramid (Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities)
By Jason Daley
smithsonian.com
April 7, 2017


After thousands of years, researchers are still making incredible finds in Egypt (case in point, the giant statue unearthed in Cairo last month). Now, researchers have made another big find: earlier this week the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities announced that a team of their archaeologists discovered the remains of pyramid dating back to the 13th Dynasty, which ruled about 3,700 years ago reports the Associated Press. The only problem is that an inscription indicates that the pyramid may have been built for a ruler that already has a pyramid next door.

The Egypt Independent reports that the remains were uncovered at the Dahshur Necropolis, an area about 25 miles south of Cairo on the west bank of the Nile. That area is home to what is considered to be some of the earliest pyramids including Sneferu's Bent Pyramid and Red Pyramid.

While the pyramid-shaped upper section is gone, the substructure still remains. “The uncovered remains of the pyramid represents a part of its inner structure, which is composed of a corridor leading to the inner side of the pyramid and a hall, which leads to a southern ramp and a room to the western end,” Adel Okasha, the director general of the Dahshur Necropolis says in a statement, reports Owen Jarus at LiveScience.

Though the writing on the slab has not been translated by the Antiquities Ministry, Jarus shared images of the hieroglyphics with Egyptologists. He reports that two have said the writing is a religious text often used inside pyramids, and that the text appears to include the name of the pharaoh Ameny Qemau, the fifth king of Dynasty XIII, who briefly ruled around 1790 B.C.

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-pyramid-discovered-egypt-180962813/#jfEYBVOHhPf2Mt6t.99

[Warpy]

1. Most graves got robbed before the mummy cooled off

It will be amazing if anything is still in this one. Let's hope things like the wall art are still intact. That alone can be pretty astonishing even if the grave goods have been gone for 3700 years.

People in the future are going to despair about us. One thing Christianity did is do away with grave goods. People who dig us up in the future will find only bones.

[C Moon]

2. Awesome!

[democratisphere]

3. What a great discovery. There will be many more discoveries throughout

the world that may change history as we know it.
Thank you for this article.

[littlemissmartypants]

4. Judi Lynn! ♡ eom

[defacto7]

5. If it is corroborated by archeologists of note

it would be a great find. I just don't believe anything Zahi Hawass says. He makes things up as he goes along to gain media attention. (He's the director of antiquities) It's not allowed to second guess him or you can loose permission to do serious study in Egypt.
It's a great find anyway but how it's interpreted is at the sole discretion of Mr. Hawass.

[Humberto the Believe]

7. Hawass is no longer the Minister of Antiquities.

That honor belongs to a gentleman by the name of Khaled el Enany.

[defacto7]

8. Excellent. ..

except Zahi was putting on quite the media blitz in recent weeks over some new find. Maybe he's the minister of ancient alternate facts now.

[gopiscrap]

9. welcome to DU