{"id":284687,"date":"2010-02-05T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-8121744201024651290"},"modified":"2010-02-05T15:30:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T20:30:46","slug":"in-the-field-exploration-of-giza-cave-tomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/284687","title":{"rendered":"In the field: Exploration of Giza Cave-Tomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-newswire.com\/exploration-of-giza-cave-tomb-steps\/20558\">i-Newswire<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Work at the enigmatic tomb concealing the hidden entrance to Giza\u2019s lost cave-world has stepped up a gear as Dr Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of Egypt\u2019s Supreme Council of Antiquities, reveals that the mysterious location is being probed by a host of experts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have experts in all fields working with us,\u201d he revealed this week. \u201cArchaeologists, geologists, engineers, and architects, to name a few.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr Hawass is, however, being tight lipped on exactly why there is so much interest in the tomb, designated \u201cNC2\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be posting information about our excavation at Giza on my web site,\u201d he said, \u201cand will be publishing the results of our work in due course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Work at the cave-tomb began quietly in August last year, and has continued ever since, with two new rock-cut shafts and stairways being uncovered to date. These have been found to lead into a maze of underground chambers and galleries never seen in modern times.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-8121744201024651290?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i-Newswire Work at the enigmatic tomb concealing the hidden entrance to Giza\u2019s lost cave-world has stepped up a gear as Dr Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of Egypt\u2019s Supreme Council of Antiquities, reveals that the mysterious location is being probed by a host of experts. \u201cWe have experts in all fields working with us,\u201d he revealed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}