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...archaeologist may have failed to convince the world this year that she had uncovered the tomb of Alexander the Great in Egypt, but now another has clearly hit pay dirt. Today, French archaeologist Jean Leclant unveiled a previously unknown, 4,000-year-old pyramid at Sakkara, a locale famous for its step-pyramid (an early model). Long hidden in the sand, the royal monument looks more like a pile of rock than the great pyramids on the Giza plateau, which lie north. Inscriptions found at the site dedicate it to Queen Meritites, who (for the genealogically-minded) may have been...
Baffling Charm. Author Newby peoples his lively books with rogues and innocents and makes both types fresh and fascinating. In The Picnic at Sakkara, he wittily chronicled the blundering adventures of Edgar Perry, a British innocent at large in King Farouk's Egypt. The baffling charm and evasive malevolence of a restive Egypt have never been better evoked, or with more understanding. In The Barbary Light, his hero is a rogue who has all the equipment needed to be a killer except the killer's instinct - in fact, Owen suffers from immoral flabbiness. Newby, moreover...
...Percy Howard) Newby, 39, is a puckish soldier turned professor, proletarian turned sahib. His The Picnic at Sakkara (TIME, Aug. 29, 1955) was a rich and penetrating fantasy of life in the Nile delta in the last hours of King Farouk. In Revolution and Roses he has moved on in time to the period when an Egyptian army clique led by General Naguib and Colonel Nasser turn out Farouk and take on the cumbrous business of governing a country that had "never had any real independence since...
...ship was found last month, in a brick tomb of its own, near the pyramids in the necropolis at Sakkara. It is less than half as long as the ship of Cheops (whose pyramid is also the biggest), and its wood is badly decayed. But it has all the main features of later soul ships. On its deck is a cabin to shelter the soul of the dead Pharaoh. Pottery vessels hold food and drink for his royal feasts, and plates and eating utensils are ready for his use. The ship's keel is accurately pointed parallel...
Neolithic Egypt. Dr. Emery is not the kind of Egyptologist whose chief interest is finding spectacular treasures for exhibition. His digging at Sakkara, which he has been doing since 1935, is aimed at solving a fascinating problem: What was the origin of Egypt's civilization...