{"id":383161,"date":"2010-03-03T06:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-2405580050370858105"},"modified":"2010-03-03T06:13:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T11:13:09","slug":"queen-behenus-burial-chamber-discovered-at-saqqara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/383161","title":{"rendered":"Queen Behenu&#8217;s burial chamber discovered at Saqqara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heritage-key.com\/blogs\/ann\/queen-behenus-burial-chamber-discovered-saqqara?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hkdigest+%28Heritage+Key+Digest%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Heritage Key<\/a> (Ann Wuyts)<\/p>\n<p>With photos.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A French archaeological team digging at Saqqara has discovered the burial chamber of 6th Dynasty Queen Behenu, wife of either Pepi I or Pepi II. The burial chamber was revealed while the team was cleaning the sand from Behenu&#8217;s pyramid in the area of el-Shawaf in South Saqqara, west of the pyramid of King Pepi I.<\/p>\n<p>The burial chamber uncovered by the French mission is badly damaged, apart from two inner walls which contain engraved Pyramid Texts. Those texts were widely used in royal tombs \u2013 carved on walls as well as sarcophagi &#8211; during the 5th and 6th Dynasties (circa 2465-2150BC).<\/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\/6760875-2405580050370858105?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heritage Key (Ann Wuyts) With photos. A French archaeological team digging at Saqqara has discovered the burial chamber of 6th Dynasty Queen Behenu, wife of either Pepi I or Pepi II. The burial chamber was revealed while the team was cleaning the sand from Behenu&#8217;s pyramid in the area of el-Shawaf in South Saqqara, west [&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-383161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383161","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=383161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}