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"Star shafts", or sometimes "air shafts", commonly refers to two narrow ducts leading out of the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid of Giza. It may also refer to two similar shafts in the walls of the Queen's Chamber , though these are discussed less frequently due to being blocked off on both the outside and inside of the pyramid.
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.
The Upuaut Project was a scientific exploration of the so-called "air shafts" of the Great Pyramid of Giza, which was built as a tomb for Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu.The Upuaut Project was led by Rudolf Gantenbrink under the auspices of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo during three campaigns (two in 1992 and one in 1993).
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 name derived from Djedi, the ancient Egyptian magician consulted by Pharaoh Khufu when planning his famous pyramid. As Dr. Zahi Hawass announced on his blog: "The purpose of this project is to send a robotic tunnel explorer into the two "air shafts" that lead from the Queen's Chamber of the Great Pyramid of Khufu to gather evidence to ...
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 ...
Dr. Hossam Ghanim, said: "The mission also discovered a huge building of polished limestone from the inside, representing a well for holy water used in daily rituals". [100] [101] In April 2022, an Egyptian archaeological expedition discovered an ancient Roman pottery workshop at the Tibet-Matrouh site, west of Alexandria. [102]
Abu Rawash is located 8 km (5 mi) north of Giza and is home to the pyramid of Djedefre and the ruins of the first pyramid of Lepsius. [2] A necropolis is located at the site, sat on top of a small hill and contains twelve mastabas dated to the 1st dynasty. [3] Typical materials known from this site are: Limestone