From left to right: Exterior view of the pyramid. A passage secured with steel beams. One of the discovered storage rooms. (Image: Mohamed Khaled / Uni Würzburg)
From left to right: Exterior view of the pyramid. A passage secured with steel beams. One of the discovered storage rooms. (Image: Mohamed Khaled / Uni Würzburg) A remarkable archaeological breakthrough has been made with the excavation and restoration of rooms in the pyramid of Sahura. The discovered chambers are probably storage rooms intended to hold the royal burial objects. An Egyptian-German mission led by Egyptologist Dr. Mohamed Ismail Khaled of the Department of Egyptology at Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg (JMU) has made a significant discovery within Sahura's Pyramid. The exploration has unearthed a number of storage rooms that had not been documented before.
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