SAQQARA, Egypt (AP) - Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered the "missing pyramid" of a pharaoh and a ceremonial procession road where high priests carried mummified remains of sacred bulls, Egypt's antiquities chief said Thursday.
Zahi Hawass said the pyramid - of which only the base remains - is believed to be that of King Menkauhor, an obscure pharaoh who ruled for only eight years more than 4,000 years ago.
In 1842, German archaeologist Karl Richard Lepsius mentioned Menkauhor's pyramid among his finds at Saqqara, calling it the "Headless Pyramid" because its top was missing, Hawass said.
But the desert sands covered Lepsius' discovery, and no archaeologist since was able to find it.
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How Do You Lose A Pyramid?
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Of course! What do you expect? They didn't have GPS yet then, did they!But the desert sands covered Lepsius' discovery, and no archaeologist since was able to find it.
Luckily they keep finding a plethora of 'new' pyramids to make up for the odd lost one. No harm done.
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Nice pictures. I could have lived without the drumbeat.
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Didn't Schoch say that the tunnels were dug in WWII or something?
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According to this geezer the pyramids were launch platforms for the space ships of the Anunaki, as well as microwave energy receptacles/collectors.
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I remember thinking it was tommyrot when my Old Man told me when I was knee-high to a dodo that the Scottish National Museum in Edinburgh displayed only ten percent of its potential exhibits.
Some years later (after wandering the halls a million or so times), I was given an unofficial tour of some of the storerooms in the basement and got the impression that he was about right after all.
Wonder if anyone else was naive enough back in the late sixties to swallow the 'discovery' described in one of the silly, pseudoscientific books of the time that if you were to construct in cardboard a pyramid of identical proportion to Giza and place a dull razor blade within it overnight, the blade will be restored to pristine keenness by breakfast.
I was. Didn't work.
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Some years later (after wandering the halls a million or so times), I was given an unofficial tour of some of the storerooms in the basement and got the impression that he was about right after all.
Wonder if anyone else was naive enough back in the late sixties to swallow the 'discovery' described in one of the silly, pseudoscientific books of the time that if you were to construct in cardboard a pyramid of identical proportion to Giza and place a dull razor blade within it overnight, the blade will be restored to pristine keenness by breakfast.
I was. Didn't work.
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Zahi Hawass classifies such people as "pyramidiots."
Unfortunately, he then goes on to use the term to describe people who dispute his Khufu-Built-It-For-His-Tomb theory.
Unfortunately, he then goes on to use the term to describe people who dispute his Khufu-Built-It-For-His-Tomb theory.
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Hmmm. I don't know what Zahi's theory about the pyramids is. But I've been reading a lot of Egyptian stuff lately, plus a lot about Neolithic funerary rites, and I've been coming to conclusion that the pyramids weren't built to be tombs - that that was just part of their function, the rest and the most important part being given over to their rituals and ceremonies to their gods.
Plato talks (somewhere, can't remember where, but will find out) about being involved in an inititation rite in a pyramid in Egypt. So does apparently, Pythagorus (will come back with references later).
On top of that, when we look at the burials of elite peoples at Neollithic sites like Catal Hoyuk and Ain Ghazal, as well as the traditional ways of the modern day Barasana Indians and the south African San after thousands of years, we see a pattern. The best graves (and thus reserved for the eilte) were always under the floor or in the walls of where all the important shamanic rituals took place.
It's as if the dead still wanted to remain a part of the ritual action even after their death.
Some 'royal' skeletons have been found at Stonehenge, and now people are saying that Stonehenge was a royal mausoleum. But I think these elites wanted to be buried there for the same reason, that they wanted to stay close the action, prhaps believing that they stood a better chance of a better afterlife that way - a bit like having a front row ticket instead of in 'the gods' - no pun intended!
We can see that Neolithic man was not in the habit of building buildings solely for his own dead body to be entombed in. But that's what we do today, so perhaps we are judging them by our own standards.
Plato talks (somewhere, can't remember where, but will find out) about being involved in an inititation rite in a pyramid in Egypt. So does apparently, Pythagorus (will come back with references later).
On top of that, when we look at the burials of elite peoples at Neollithic sites like Catal Hoyuk and Ain Ghazal, as well as the traditional ways of the modern day Barasana Indians and the south African San after thousands of years, we see a pattern. The best graves (and thus reserved for the eilte) were always under the floor or in the walls of where all the important shamanic rituals took place.
It's as if the dead still wanted to remain a part of the ritual action even after their death.
Some 'royal' skeletons have been found at Stonehenge, and now people are saying that Stonehenge was a royal mausoleum. But I think these elites wanted to be buried there for the same reason, that they wanted to stay close the action, prhaps believing that they stood a better chance of a better afterlife that way - a bit like having a front row ticket instead of in 'the gods' - no pun intended!
We can see that Neolithic man was not in the habit of building buildings solely for his own dead body to be entombed in. But that's what we do today, so perhaps we are judging them by our own standards.
Ishtar of Ishtar's Gate and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.