Landmark discovery to change many beliefs
Egypt, History, 6/23/2000

"Egyptian Archaeologists made a landmark discovery that will likely change many beliefs about the old Dynasty," said Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni.

"The mission uncovered an additional number of tombs belonging to the workers who built the Pyramids," Farouq Hosni said.

The tombs are shaped to the Kings' Pyramids and are similar to those in Giza. The discovery will show the whole world that Egyptians were the real builders of the Pyramids and that they were never labor slaves as what is being circulated.

"The workers were buried in the adjacency of the Pyramids and had apparently equipped their tombs with all the needs they believed to benefit them in the afterlife, like Kings and Nobles," Farouq Hosni argued.

Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) Gaballah Ali Gaballah said the mission, led by Zahi Hawas, excavated two new tombs for the workers designed to the old Dynasty's Pyramid style. They are built with chalk stone and their walls are inscribed with the titles of the dead.

Every tomb has a 30-meter-along building made of chalk blocs and mud bricks and in the center of which a curve resembling that in the Cheops Group of Pyramids. At the end of the building there is a table for the offerings.

On his part, Hawas said the workers who built the Pyramids emulated the Kings in designing their tombs.

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