A 2018 study by Wojciech Ejsmond in Ägypten und Levante presented five natural pyramid formations in Upper Egypt associated with ancient tombs. The study argued that their funerary use began in the First Intermediate Period and that, by the New Kingdom, the form’s royal symbolism could make a natural formation suitable for a royal burial.
2018 study identifies five natural pyramids in Upper Egyptian funerary contexts
Key facts
- Wojciech Ejsmond's 2018 article in Ägypten und Levante presented five natural pyramid formations in Upper Egypt associated with ancient tombs.
- The study traced their funerary use from the First Intermediate Period through the New Kingdom.
- The study argued that by the New Kingdom, the royal symbolism of the pyramid form could make a natural formation suitable for a royal burial.
- The supplied evidence does not support the claim that the study is regarded as controversial within Egyptology.
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The Egyptian Pyramidsi.edu
At Medum, a step pyramid was built, then filled in with stone, and covered with a limestone casing. Nearby at Bahshur, construction was begun on a pyramid ...
(PDF) Wojciech Ejsmond, 'Natural Pyramids of Ancient Egyptacademia.edu
The study identifies five natural pyramids in Upper Egypt, described as having distinct pyramidal shapes observable from strategic positions near tombs.
BEFORE THE PYRAMIDSisac.uchicago.edu
Before the Pyramids: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization. Egypt and the Levant: Interrelations from the 4th through the Early 3rd Millennium BCE,
NATURAL PYRAMIDS OF ANCIENT EGYPTaustriaca.at
Scholars observed that pyramid shape hills or rocks (so called 'natural pyramids') in some cases are related to tombs, n und Levante/Egypt and the Levant
Egypt and the Levant (E&L)oeaw.ac.at
It comprises reports and preliminary reports on archaeological excavations in Egypt and the entire Middle East including the Sudan, as well as articles
Egypt and the Levant: A long history of connections and ...everydayorientalism.wordpress.com
Maritime contacts with Byblos continued during the Pyramid Age, as Egyptians imported timber, with land routes (and contacts with the southern ...
Discovery may explain why Egyptian pyramids were built ...phys.org
Some 31 pyramids in Egypt, including the Giza pyramid complex, may originally have been built along a 64-km-long branch of the river Nile ...
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