2023-09-29 18:15:04
Pharaoh Sahura reigned in Ancient Egypt almost 2,500 years ago. He was the second king of the Fifth Dynasty and the first king to be buried in the Abusir necropolis.
An investigation carried out by a German-Egyptian team of experts, led by Mohamed Ismail Khaled of the Department of Egyptology at the University of Würzburg in Germany, has unearthed several rooms that have never before been documented.
Judging by the characteristics of such rooms, they were used as warehouses.
The conservation and restoration project of the interior of the Sahura pyramid, started in 2019, aims to safeguard the substructure of the pyramid.
The specialists working on the project are mainly trying to clean the interior rooms, stabilize the pyramid from within and prevent new collapses.
During an archaeological excavation in 1836, the famous British Egyptologist John Perring already suspected that a corridor, impassable because it was full of rubble, led to the now documented rooms.
However, during a subsequent exploration, that of 1907 carried out by Ludwig Borchardt’s team, that suspicion was discarded.
Time has proven that Perring’s intuition was correct.
From left to right, exterior view of the pyramid, a hallway secured with steel beams and one of the storage rooms discovered in the new investigation. (Photos: Mohamed Khaled)
The precarious state of some sections of the pyramid made it too dangerous to carry out extensive debris removal operations to advance towards unexplored sites of the pyramid. Only with the passage of many years, the pyramid has been secured little by little and this has allowed access to points that were previously inaccessible.
The latest technology has been used in the new research, including, for example, a sophisticated 3D laser scanning system. (Source: NCYT from Amazings)
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