Word: sanakht
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...spite of the three-day Moslem Feast of Bairam, Dr. Ghoneim put 80 laborers to work making the underground passageways navigable for visitors. He declared that the sarcophagus is certainly royal, and that it probably contains the golden mummy case of the Pharaoh Sanakht. If this proves to be so, it will be important indeed. Only a few unrobbed tombs of Pharaohs have been found, and the earliest of them, that of Tutankhamen, is 1,500 years later than the Third Dynasty...
...Egyptologists are not so 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...
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