Old Kingdom statue found near Giza Pyramids

Post by **FABlux** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:05 pm

A quartzite statue 149cm tall, of a seated man, dating back over 4500 years was found by maintenance workers only 16" below the surface.
Full story & pictures here http://www.welt.de/english-news/article ... amids.html

Post by **Horus** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:20 am

Very interesting

but I wonder who wrote the article? Mycerinus's time, blimey, I have not heard him called that for a while, do you think they mean Menkaura?

probably a Latin scholar

Just makes you wonder how much stuff is just waiting to be discovered beneath the sand of Egypt.

Post by **sesen** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:57 pm

How amazing that it was found so close to the surface. What a surprise for the workers!
I still do at times see Menkaure named Mycerinus in various media, which is a bit of a shame. Reminds me of getting used to towns actually having several name changes over their very long history - takes a bit of getting used to

Post by **Horus** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 8:34 pm

I recall that it was one of the first things about ancient Egypt that I committed to memory, the two different sets of names used for the builders of the Pyramids. I would get so confused by someone using one name and someone else another for what I soon realised was the same three pyramids, that I resolved to commit them to memory.
Cheops, Chephren and Mycerinus = Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure

Er................ I think

Post by **FABlux** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:59 pm

I wondered who Mycerinus was, now why didn't they say Menkaure, I'd have known who they meant.

Not that I met him personally you understand, I'm not quite that old