Word: ghoneim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the world already watching Egypt, hoping that the soul ship of Cheops (TIME, June 7) would prove to be laden with fascinating cargo, a second discovery came to light. Dr. Mohammed Zakaria Ghoneim, Egypt's chief inspector of antiquities, announced that he had found the apparently unrobbed sarcophagus of a Pharaoh of the Third Dynasty (2980-2900 B.C.), even older than Cheops...
...years Dr. Ghoneim has been digging laboriously into a shapeless hill near the "step pyramid" of Zoser, 15 miles south of the Pyramid of Cheops. Prompted by ancient lore, he suspected that it might be more interesting than it looked. Under the sand, he found the corner of a low wall. As his laborers shoveled the sand away, he found another corner. "I've got a pyramid!" cried Dr. Ghoneim. The hill was indeed the base of a pyramid that was never finished...