“This is a unique exhibition relating stories from the sand,” Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) told Al-Ahram Weekly. He said the objects in “this wonderful exhibition” came from excavation carried out by Egyptologist Sakuji Yoshimura, who has worked in Egypt for many years and has dedicated his life to searching for the secrets of ancient Egypt. Among his magnificent discoveries is the rest house built by Ramses II’s son prince Khaemwaset, who had an interest in restoring the monuments of his ancestors and so built a rest house on the top of a cliff at Abusir so he could view the pyramids of Abusir and Giza in the north and the pyramids of Saqqara and Dahshour in the south.
The Japanese don’t get a lot of exposure in Egyptology, but they should. As the article notes, they’ve done an awful lot of remote sensing work there. They also built a small pyramid at one point to test some theories about maneuvering large stones.
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