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> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 15:37:59 +0100
> From: "Sue Anderson" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: #5: New pottery email group (25 lines)
>
> Dear all,
>
> Apologies for cross-posting.
>
> You are invited to join a new email group, arch-pot, dedicated to
> British archaeological pottery of any period. Please pass this
> message on to anyone else who might be interested.
>
> To join, please send a message to
>
> [log in to unmask]
>
> or go to our site at
> http://www.egroups.com/invite/arch-pot
> and click the "JOIN" button
>
> Please ignore this message if you're not interested.
>
> Sue Anderson
> Finds Manager
> Suffolk CC Archaeological Service,
> Shire Hall, Bury St. Edmunds IP33 2AR. Tel. 01284 352446.
> Please note: the views contained in this message are
> those of the individual and do not necessarily represent
> the views of the County Council.
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> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:30:15 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Jack Sasson <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: #8: NEWS: Pyramid style Limestone tombs (39 lines)
>
> Colleagues sent these news releases:
>
> CAIRO, June 21 (AFP) - A team of Egyptian archeologists has
> discovered two limestone tombs modeled on the design of the Great
> Pyramids of Giza, the authorities said Wednesday.
> They were built by the builders of the pyramids for themselves
> and not for the kings, but the authorities did not say if their
> mummified bodies were found inside them.
> "The two new tombs for builders of the pyramids are built with
> limestone and are distinguished by their pyramidal shape, unlike
> previously found tombs for builders of the pyramids," team leader
> Zahi Hawas told AFP.
> "The two tombs were conceived on the inside exactly like the
> three royal pyramids of Giza," according to Hawas, who is director
> of antiquities at the Giza plateau just outside the Egyptian capital
> Cairo.
> Culture Minister Faruq Hosni told journalists that "this
> discovery will change established concepts."
> For example, he said it will "prove that the pyramids of Giza
> were not built, contrary to what many people think, by workers
> submitted to servitude, because the builders have made their tombs
> similar to those of the kings."
>
> CAIRO, June 26 (AFP) - A team of Japanese archeologists excavating
> near the Giza Pyramids have found three 4,500-year-old tombs, one
> containing a skeleton sitting cross-legged, the Egyptian antiquities
> authorities said here Monday.
> The interconnected walk-in limestone tombs each contained a burial
> hole in the ground, including one with the skeleton, Gaballah Ali
> Gaballah, the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, told the
> official Al-Ahram newspaper.
> The skeleton was seated cross-legged with the head turned north and
> the body facing east, Gaballah said without explaining why a lone skeleton
> was found in such a position.
> Also found in the tombs which date back to the Old Kingdom, around
> 2700-2300 years before Christ, were three limestone altars for offerings
> and several items of pottery, officials added.
> The discovery of the tombs was made in the area just south of the
> three pyramids of Giza, which is adjacent to Cairo.
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