Word: sakkara
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Excavations of the Third Egyptian Dynasty at Sakkara" will be the subject of Professor Jean Capart, Director of the Royal Museum of the Cinquantenaire, Brussels, Belgium, who will speak in the Lecture Hall of the Fine Arts Museum, Boston, at 3 o'clock next Tuesday...
...Sakkara near where ancient Memphis stood, and said they thought they had found the tomb of Architect Im-Hotep, the Christopher Wren of 5,000 years ago. Besides building King Zoser's famed Step Pyramid at Memphis and other monuments, Im-Hotep founded the sciences of law and medicine along the Nile. By the time of Publicist Tutankhamen (enthroned about 1358 B. C.) his legend was almost as old as Christianity now is to the modern world. In Ptolemaic times (Fourth to First Centuries, B. C.) he was deified...
...mummified horses, the first of their kind, have been discovered in a royal tomb at Sakkara, near Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt. The tomb was found and first opened last year by members of the Harvard-Boston Museum Expedition...
...Sakkara, Egypt, two stone chapels of the Third Dynasty were discovered. They were said to be "the earliest stone buildings ever discovered...