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FLYING out of a brilliant morning sun, four Israeli jets marked with the unmistakable Star of David wheeled in at 1,000 ft. and began strafing an Egyptian army camp at Dahshur, barely 21 miles south of Cairo. Then, while thousands of Cairenes rushed to rooftops and windows to see what was going on, the jets wheeled to the north and attacked a second camp just one mile from Maadi, a fashionable suburb of diplomats, foreign oilmen and well-to-do Egyptians. Housewives ducked into basements, and the 300 students at Cairo's American College, three blocks from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: In Earshot of the Front | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

...builder of the Great Pyramid, 4,800 years ago was the first great Pharaoh of Egypt. Harvard men under Dr. George A. Reisner have put together much history of his line. His father was Snefru, his mother Hetep-Heres I. Cheops loved her greatly. When her first tomb at Dahshur was robbed, he secretly reburied her at Giza, close to his pyramid. Cheops had four queens and several children. One of these, Chephren, built the second pyramid. His doughtiest daughter was Hetep-Heres II, a biological curiosity. Other Egyptians were swart and black-haired. She was blonde with reddish hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...until last March was the sarcophagus opened. Despite its elaborate concealment, the magnificent array around it and the obvious fact that thieves had never penetrated to it, the sarcophagus was empty. Cheops, having had one experience with thieves -at Dahshur, had evidently carried his ruse of concealment one step beyond extreme caution and hidden his mother's mummy still elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diggers | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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