Random

So I was looking online at the promo video for the Afghanistan Exhibit I'm going to see tomorrow, Wed, which I'll put below. And something made me think of when I read about Zahi Hawass being here in S.F., several years ago, for a lecture. I could have gone, but I didn't know about it until after the fact. I would just love to see him speak. Anyway, that just prompted me to google his name for some reason. Then that lead me to all these news stories about him discovering a new Pyramid 2 months ago, and announcing it yesterday (Tues). How cool!! And I just thought it was so odd that I hadn't thought of Hawass in many months, and the day I do, there were all these articles about the discovery (see article below). I just found the coincidence interesting is all.

Article about the pyramid discovery...
"Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a pyramid buried in the desert and thought to belong to the mother of a pharaoh who ruled more than 4 000 years ago.

Egypt's antiquities chief, Zahi Hawass, said on Tuesday that the pyramid, found in the sand south of Cairo about two months ago, probably housed the remains of Queen Shesheshet, the mother of King Teti, who ruled from 2323 BC to 2291 BC and founded Egypt's Sixth Dynasty.

"The only queen whose pyramid is missing is Shesheshet, which is why I am sure it belonged to her," said Hawass. "This will enrich our knowledge about the Old Kingdom."

The Sixth Dynasty, a time of conflict in Egypt's royal family and erosion of centralised power, is considered to be the last dynasty of the Old Kingdom, after which Egypt descended into famine and social upheaval.

Hawass said the headless, 5m-high pyramid had originally reached about 14m, with sides 22m long.

The pyramid, which is the 118th found in Egypt, was discovered near the oldest pyramid at Saqqara, a burial ground for ancient Egypt's rulers.

Hawass said the monument had originally been covered in a casing of white limestone brought from quarries at nearby Tura. Archaeologists planned to enter the pyramid's burial chamber within two weeks, although most of its contents were likely to have been taken by thieves.

Artefacts, including a wooden statue of the ancient Egyptian god Anubis and funerary figurines dating from a later period, indicated that the cemetery had been re-used through Roman times. - Reuters"

Afghanistan Exhibit Video