Asked in Ancient HistoryMath and ArithmeticGeometryGreat Pyramid of Giza
How many Pyramid in Eygpt?
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November 30, 2009 12:07AM
All of Egypt's pyramids are sited on the west bank of the Nile
and most are grouped together in a number of pyramid fields.
The German Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius (1810-84) produced the
first modern list of pyramids in 1842. He identified 67. A great
many more have since been discovered, in November 2008 118 pyramids
had been identified. The location of Pyramid 29 for example, the
so-called "Headless Pyramid", was lost for a second time when the
structure was buried by desert sands subsequent to Lepsius' survey.
It was only rediscovered again during an archaeological dig
conducted in 2008.
Many pyramids are in a poor state of preservation or buried by
desert sands. If visible at all they may appear as little more than
mounds of rubble. As archaeological techniques improve
Egyptologists are continuing to identify and study previously
unknown pyramid structures.
The most recent pyramid to be discovered is that of Queen
Sesheshet, mother of 6th Dynasty Pharaoh Teti, located at Saqqara.
The discovery was announced by the Egyptian Council of Antiquities,
on 11 November 2008.