#Zakaria Goneim

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I was just listening to a podcast about this and I thought it was quite interesting! And it's a fairly "recent" find!

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Suizid eines Ägyptologen. 1952 entdeckte der junge einheimische Ägyptologe Mohammed Zakaria Goneim die Pyramide des Pharao Sechemchet aus der 3. Dynastie (2 700 - 2695 v Chr) Einheimische Ägyptologen gab es ja nicht allzuviele und dem wenigen Nachwuchs mangelte es an Geld um spektakuläre Entdeckungen zu machen. Sie hatten nicht die Sponsoren wie die Amerikaner, Engländer oder andere Länder. Alle träumten davon, einmal ein unversehrtes Pharaonengrab zu entdecken wie das des Tutanchamun. So war man dann auch hoch erfreut, als man hörte, der Ägypter Zakaria Goneim hatte ein, wie es schien, noch versiegeltes Pharaonengrab gefunden. Pharao Sechemchet war der Horusname des Pharao Djoserteti. Nach Meinung unserer gestandenen Ägyptologen war Pharao Sechemchet ein Bruder des Pharao Djoser. Seine Pyramide sollte eine Stufenpyramide von etwa 70 Meter Höhe werden, der Stumpf erreichte aber nur 8 Meter, dann wurden die Bauarbeiten eingestellt. Die Pyramide liegt einige 100 Meter südwestlich der Stufenpyramide des Djoser auf der Nekropole von Sakkara mit einer Schenkellänge von 115 x 115 Meter. Auf der Umfassungsmauer des Pyramidenkomplexes konnte einige Zeit nach der Entdeckung das Grafitti des Universalgenie Imhotep gefunden werden. Vermutlich war er am Aufbau der Pyramide beteiligt. Nachdem die Steinblöcke der Pyramide von Pharao Djoser mit Feuerstein bearbeitet waren, fand man bei der Pyramide des Sechemchet eine Bearbeitung durch Kupfermeißel. Dann stellte der Ägyptologe Goneim bei seinen Ausgrabungen an der Pyramide fest, dass sie noch original verschlossen und versiegelt war. Das bedeutete soviel wie, noch nie waren Grabräuber in ihrem Innern und es gab einen großen Medien-Rummel. Allem Anschein nach war man 30 Jahre nach Öffnung des unbeschädigten Tutanchamun-Grabes erneut auf ein unversehrtes Zeugnis der damaligen Zeit gestoßen. Rest in den Kommentaren! #pyramids #ägypten #pharaoh #fluch #isis #osiris #seth #geschichte #wissen #lernen #antikebibliothek https://www.instagram.com/p/Ccrib8kK7nc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Egipto: La enigmática 'pirámide sepultada', el hallazgo que 'mató' a su descubridor.

Egipto: La enigmática ‘pirámide sepultada’, el hallazgo que ‘mató’ a su descubridor.

Hace varias décadas, un equipo de arqueólogos dirigido por Zakaria Goneim descubrió los restos de una estructura desconocida. Poco sabía que aquello sería el principio de su fin. Egipto siempre ha presumido de ser una de las civilizaciones que más misterios esconde de todos los tiempos. Durante miles de años, sus secretos estuvieron ocultos por el paso del tiempo, pero en el siglo XIX eso…

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The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities

Located in the midst of Downtown Cairo is The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities (commonly known as the Egyptian Museum); although established in 1902, this appealing architectural design is where Ancient Egyptian history and artifacts are showcased with gratitude and security. With its substantial shape, salmon colored exterior walls and two-story height; this museum includes 120,000 various artifacts with many still kept in storage. Some, if not most, of these items are seen in protective glass cases while others including large statues of former Pharaohs and Queens are located, without a barrier, on the ground floor. Here is also where viewers can find ancient Egyptian pottery; clothing; cutlery; jewelry; weapons; sarcophagus’s; paintings and many small sized statues that, although are not placed within protective glass, require a glance from a distance so as to not deface any of the Ancient beauty.

The Egyptian Museum consists of statues of ancient deities, palm trees and a pond in its exterior (with strategically lit lights at night) while the interior reveals tall and large pillars on the ground floor and captivating Arch designed ceilings and walls that almost enclose the second floor. One could also site benches and seats where one could rest to examine exhibits as well as the stairway that leads to the famous and celebrated Golden Mask of Tutankhamun; a magnificent mask with hieroglyphic inscriptions in the back view and a pharaonic beard and ancient multicolored beaded necklace in the front view.

Other than antiquities of past civilization, the Museum also holds a memorial in its garden that caters to former and famous Egyptologist including but not limited to: Zakaria Goneim, Auguste Mariette and Emmanuel de Rouge.

Regardless of past obstacles that may have lead to the demolition and theft of certain antiquities, including the destruction of two mummies during the Revolution in 2011, the Museum succeeded in obtaining  twenty-five of them that were later featured at the “damaged and restored” exhibition held in 2013 where two statues of King Tutankhamun (made from cedar wood and gold); a statue of King Akhanatan; a mummy of a child and a small polychrome vase were introduced to the public.  The Egyptian Museum continues to receive International and local viewers who anticipate its architecture, Ancient findings and the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum in 2018.

By Sabrina

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No one who has not crawled along the galleries beneath a pyramid, and experienced the silence and darkness, can fully appreciate the sensation which, at times, overwhelms one. It may sound fantastic, but I felt that the pyramid had a personality and that his personality was that of the King for whom it was built and which still lingered within it. I know that my workmen, some of whom have spent their whole lives in such work, often experience this feeling. You crawl along some dark corridor on hands and knees, past falls of rock; the light of the lamp gleams on minute crystals in the stratified walls; beyond, the corridor disappears into the blackness.  You turn corners, feeling your way with your hands; the workmen have been left behind, and suddenly you realize you are alone in a place which has not heard a footfall for nearly fifty centuries.

Dr. Zakaria Goneim, The Lost Pyramid