Ancient tomb discovered in Egypt dating back 4,500 years

[Judi Lynn]

Cemetery near pyramids houses burial shafts of top officials

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An Egyptian archaeologist works on sarcophagi at the newly discovered burial site dating back to around 2400BC ( REUTERS )

Archaeologists have uncovered part of a cemetery thousands of years old near Egypt’s famed pyramids on the Giza plateau near Cairo.

The cemetery houses burial shafts and tombs of top officials.

The most significant artefact uncovered was a limestone statue of the tomb’s owner, his wife and his son dating back to the fifth dynasty (2465-2323 BC), officials said.

Ashraf Mohi, head of the archaeological site, said it was known that the cemetery had been reused extensively in the Late Period (664-332 BC), as archaeologists found painted and decorated wooden anthropoid coffins, and wooden and clay funerary masks from that period.

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[Haggis for Breakfast]

1. Expect a new documentary from Dr. Hawass soon !!

I have learned more about Egyptology from him than from any of the college courses I took.

[Judi Lynn]

2. What an incredible job he has. Without a doubt he must live and breathe his work.

He has been famous throughout the world for a long time, too. It's natural to identify him immediately with Egypt, one and the same.

What a human!

[Haggis for Breakfast]

3. In academia, we talk a lot about institutional memory.

Can you imagine the knowledge this man possess ? Big things, of course, but all of the minutia, little tidbits and stories that he has accumulated throughout the decades of his dedication to his field. I truly hope that some enterprising PhD candidate is preserving his memories for all time in the form of a volume of books that explore all of Dr. Hawass's adventures, big and small. It would be a gift for scholars to come.

And while I'm at it . . . Judi, thank you for all of your wonderful posts, especially those that touch on the sciences, and discoveries in various fields. You are a gift that keeps on giving !

[Judi Lynn]

4. Hope someone will approach him. One ALWAYS thinks of Dr. Wawass whenever a discovery is made.

His memories and observations and thoughts would fill so many books, no doubt about that.

It would take a really good interviewer who is totally tuned in to the history of archeology in Egypt and what has gone before, and some very accomplished writer to help organize everything. It would be a ferocious task assembling everything he might want to get recorded!

One almost gets tearing, thinking of how amazing that would be.

There's so much within reach day by day on the internet. The only problem is finding the time to locate it and post it, as finding it and not putting it somewhere else where someone else can see it quickly would be horrible! You might remember when, as a kid, you might have read in your room until you'd run across something too great, and you'd have to leave your room to read it to a parent or a sibling, etc. then and there.

Posting them here is a continuation of the same impulse. Don't want to see them alone!

Thank you, so much, Haggis4Breakfast.