A Story of Discovery
and the people would continue to worship the king after his death as a god.”
”Yani was bursting with excitement as he called Al-Mallakh on the telephone when they were having lunch, saying “Mr Al-Mallakh, we have found the boat of Khufu.”…
Whether with the advantage of hindsight, or as the result of an inspired guess at the time, Al-Mallakh said he had been convinced from the first that the southern enclosure wall had been built closer to the Pyramids than the northern and western walls precisely to conceal one or more boat pits, and that Yani had also known this.
Be that as it may, the announcement caused great excitement, and the group left the café in haste, jumped into Mansour’s car, and headed for Giza. Mansour recalls that the car broke down on the Pyramids Road from overheating. “The curse of the Pharaohs,” he said…”
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Dr. Troglodyte