The new discovery is not new

Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim, Minister of  Antiquities denied the accuracy of the news in discovering a new pyramid south of Edfu.

He said " The pyramid referred to as a new discovery which is located 5 KM north of El Ghonameya village, 5 KM south of Tell Edfu and 25 KM south of Kula pyramid is not considered a new discovery as Georges Legrain referred to it in 1894 so did Jean-Jacques de Morgan in 1908."

The Minister added " The site was deserted for a long time till a study on the pyramids was done by Werner Kaiser and Günther Dreyer in 1979 when the minister guided them to it in person as he was the head of Edfu inspectors at that time."

According the Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim, the pyramid is dated back to the Old Kingdom measures of nearly 5 meters hight and 11 meters in length.

This pyramid is one of the group of small pyramids spread in Middle and Upper Egypt like in Sohag and Elephantine islands. 

The minister explained that those pyramids were not for funerary or burial use.

The link below shows the report of the work done by the mission in 2011 and mention the pyramid including previous excavation work.

http://oi.uchicago.edu/pdf/ar/11-20/11-12/11_12_Tell_Edfu.pdf

Open Air Museum 24 Hours after the official opening

Luxor Times was at the mummification museum for Dr. Ray Johnson and he was talking at a part of his lecture about Chicago House work at Luxor Temple and mentioned that the opening for the open air museum will take place on Monday 29 , March 2010.
Luxor Times was there on Tuesday and brought to you those photographs of some of the fragments that Chicago House put so much effort and work to be able to display them for visitors.
Only one down side to it that tour guides don't tell people about it.So many visitors at the temple but only 3 were walking around in the open air museum for almost an hour.
People need to know about it and start to go and have a look.Believe me , you will enjoy it so much as there is a wide range of fragments cover different eras of Egyptian history from Pharaohs time to mid 1960s.

Well , we will leave you now to enjoy looking at the photos Luxor Time took for you but remember that it doesn't stop you from going to Luxor Temple and see it yourself.