Hidden tomb found in pyramid's shadow

[Hand of Evil]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5899361/

Hidden tomb found in pyramid's shadow

Egyptian discovery could lead to deeper treasures

Some of the tiny statues found piled inside a niche in a 2,500-year-old hidden tomb near the Pyramids in Giza, Egypt, are shown as they were found in this photo from the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities.

 

[BOZ]

well, that is pretty cool. better the government to find it that looters...

 

[Ferret]

So what does this mean? Had the (main) tomb already been found?

p.s I like 'Supreme council'

 

[Varianor Abroad]

Cooool. Thanks for the link. Boz, it doesn't sound from the article like the main tomb was elsewhere. They think that there may be a larger sarcophagus at the bottom of this one.

I really like the little figurines.

 

[vulcan_idic]

What's really interesting about this new tomb is that if the accepted dates for it and the other Gazan sites are correct this one is a real "newcomer" to the area having been built, according to the article, in 664-525 B.C., which means it's about 2000 years younger than, for example, the accepted age of the Great Pyramid. A similar time span from the newer tomb would put you in 1336-1475 AD - roughly the time period of the hundred years war - when bowmen were supplanting knights as the most powerful units and towards the end of which gunpowder was just beginning to make a widespread entrance into western warfare. Makes you think...