degypte

We know that the vault was looted in antiquity, and that the Romans regularly accessed the underground galleries, so we imagine that the first attempts to map the pyramid had been created very early, but we do not preserve any traces. If Lepsius worked on most Egyptian web sites, in Saqqara he visited the Step Pyramid of Djoser and demolished the lintels and posts of a door exactly where the name of Pharaoh Neterikhet Djoser seems. Lepsius is not the archaeologist who has worked the most on this pyramid, but his participation is clear. Nearby associations fought to remove the...