{"id":34501,"date":"2017-05-11T17:19:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T17:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/egypt-uncovers-burial-chamber-of-pharaoh-s\/"},"modified":"2017-05-11T17:18:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T17:18:39","slug":"egypt-uncovers-burial-chamber-of-pharaoh-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/egypt-uncovers-burial-chamber-of-pharaoh-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt &#8216;uncovers burial chamber of pharaoh&#8217;s daughter&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The 3,700-year-old burial chamber of a pharaoh&#8217;s daughter is believed to have been found near the remains of a recently discovered pyramid in Egypt.}<\/p>\n<p>The ministry of antiquities said the chamber at the Dahshur royal necropolis, south of Cairo, contained a wooden box engraved with hieroglyphs.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the box were four canopic jars filled with the organs of the deceased, likely a daughter of King Emnikamaw.<\/p>\n<p>The ruler&#8217;s pyramid is about 600m (1,970ft) from the chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, archaeologists investigating the remains of the structure found a relief with 10 lines of hieroglyphs bearing Emnikamaw&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>They also uncovered the remnants of an anthropoid sarcophagus.<\/p>\n<p>Dahshur is where King Sneferu of the 4th Dynasty built ancient Egypt&#8217;s first true smooth-sided pyramid, the 104m-high (341ft) Red Pyramid, about 4,600 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>He also constructed an earlier version, the 105m-high Bent Pyramid, whose slopes change angle from 54 degrees to 43 degrees about halfway up.<\/p>\n<p>Sneferu was succeeded by his son Khufu, renowned for the Great Pyramid at Giza, which &#8211; at 138m high &#8211; was a wonder of the ancient world.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19956 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_96010034_816cb55a-2713-4019-9712-58a76a995d25.jpg\" alt=\"The discovery was made at an archaeological site at the Dahshur royal necropolis\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:BBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The 3,700-year-old burial chamber of a pharaoh&#8217;s daughter is believed to have been found near the remains of a recently discovered pyramid in Egypt.} The ministry of antiquities said the chamber at the Dahshur royal necropolis, south of Cairo, contained a wooden box engraved with hieroglyphs. Inside the box were four canopic jars filled with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-34501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34501"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=34501"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=34501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}