Word: pyramids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modernize the famed old Casino itself, and build a new dance pavilion. For tourists he will start direct air service between England, Italy and Monte Carlo, with huge, four-engine aerial freighters so that guests can fly in with their cars. For yachtsmen he will build a huge concrete pyramid 200 yds. outside the harbor entrance, thus breaking up the Mediterranean swells that rock yachts in the harbor. As a final bow to luxury, Onassis plans to smooth Monte Carlo's pebbly, ankle-spraining beach by laying a carpet of concrete out 20 ft. to a depth...
...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...
...sure that Ghoneim will find the mummy of Sanakht or of any Pharaoh. If the sarcophagus does prove to be royal, said Dr. William C. Hayes of New York's Metropolitan Museum, it is likely to contain a Pharaoh earlier than Zoser. builder of the step pyramid. Sanakht was probably a son of Zoser, and no prideful Pharaoh was likely to place his tomb, as the new found one was placed, behind that of his father...
Tourists from Herodotus to Rita Hayworth have swarmed around the gigantic base of Pharaoh Cheops' pyramid, which stands in the desert on the outskirts of modern Cairo. None of them, until this week, knew what lay under their feet near the pyramid's south face...
...time of despotic Pharaoh Cheops, who reigned about 2850 B.C. (and reportedly rented out his daughter to finance his pyramid-building), the Egyptian religion taught that the souls of the dead follow the sun on its daily trips round and round the earth. For this important voyage, poor Egyptians had to make do with little clay boats, but in the case of a Pharaoh, the navigation of his soul called for elaborate equipment. Royal funerary ships were generally built in pairs, one for the daytime voyage over the sunlit land, the other to follow the sun under the earth...