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Two of the "Dixon Relics": a stone sphere and metal hook Construction of the cylinder around Cleopatra's Needle in 1877. Waynman Dixon (1844–1930) [1] was a British engineer, known for his work on the Great Pyramid of Giza and for discovering the only Egyptian artefacts to be found inside that pyramid.
In the north and south walls of the King's Chamber are two narrow shafts, commonly known as "air shafts". They face each other and are located approximately 0.91 m (3.0 ft) above the floor, 2.5 m (8.2 ft) from the eastern wall, with a width of 18 and 21 cm (7 and 8.5 in) and a height of 14 cm (5.5 in).
Reconstruction of the original grave furnishings by George Andrew Reisner. The tomb of Hetepheres I (also G 7000x) is an Ancient Egyptian shaft tomb at Giza. It is part of the Eastern Cemetery of the Great Pyramid of Giza (Necropolis G 7000) and is located near the northeast corner of the northern pyramid of Queen G I-a.
The shaft within the Step Pyramid is connected to a 200-meter-long (656-foot-long) underground tunnel that connects to another vertical shaft outside the pyramid.
The iconic Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the best-known examples of a shaft and chamber tomb Cross-section diagram of the ancient Egyptian shaft and chamber tomb inside the Great Pyramid of Giza. A shaft and chamber tomb is a type of chamber tomb used by some ancient peoples for burial of the dead. They consist of a shaft dug into the ...
The pyramid shaft was examined more closely in 1904–1905 by the Italian archaeologist Alessandro Barsanti. [4] Gaston Maspero , then director-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, visited Barsanti's excavations and was struck by the monumental size of the construction.
The Djoser pyramid in Egypt is known as the oldest in the world at 4,700 years old. A new paper published in Archaeological Prospection calls that record into question with the strong claims of a ...
Egyptian antiquities have formed part of the British Museum collection ever since its foundation in 1753 after receiving 160 Egyptian objects [2] from Sir Hans Sloane.After the defeat of the French forces under Napoleon at the Battle of the Nile in 1798, the Egyptian antiquities collected were confiscated by the British army and presented to the British Museum in 1803.