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More pictures:

http://gate.ahram.org.eg/UI/Front/Inner.aspx?NewsContentID=579717

http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/after-decades-searching-causeway-great-pyramid-egypt-has-been-found-002530

We should wait to see where this passage actually goes, it may be Old Kingdom in date, or it may not. It may not lead anywhere (that’s my guess) or it may be a New Kingdom date construction on the plateau. There was a revival of interest in the Giza monuments during the New Kingdom.


15 posted on 01/05/2015 8:11:26 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Looks like a Sealy Perfect Sleeper mattress from antiquity in the foto.


21 posted on 01/05/2015 8:20:17 AM PST by shove_it (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager)
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To: SunkenCiv

Those pictures show his village to be what looks about a kilometer or two from the pyramid. Are we to believe that no one from the antiquities bureau had ever thought to dig a couple holes around that entire area before?


22 posted on 01/05/2015 8:20:33 AM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks for that info and that perspective.


52 posted on 01/05/2015 12:38:28 PM PST by Bigg Red (Congress, do your duty and repo his pen and his phone.)
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