Talk:Hawara

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There is an Arab town right outside of Nablus (Shchem), in middle Samaria, on the way to Tapuach. It is also called Hawara. Perhaps a note could be added here about that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.198.36.54 (talk) 02:56, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

burial chamber
I added a section about the kings burial chamber based on a book by I.E.S. Edwards. He refers to the chamber as being 22 feet long by 8 feet wide by 6 feet high. He doesn't refer to this as the interior of the chamber however it must be since otherwise it would not weigh 110 tons and there wouldn't be enough room. If it is the interior and the walls are just over 2 feet deep then it adds up. I cited 2 additional sources to support it since there appeared to be a minor mistake.

Zacherystaylor (talk) 05:11, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

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Out of date and poorly sourced
only two reliable sources. There are more recent ones, I'll have a go when I get time. Doug Weller  talk 08:01, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Nat Geo documentary said how tomb was robbed
Re - "Petrie found that none of the trapdoors had been slid into place and the wooden doors were open. Whether this indicated negligence on the part of the burial party, an intention to return and place further burials in the pyramid (when found there were two sarcophagi in the quartzite monolith described below and room for at least two more), or a deliberate action to facilitate robbery of the tomb, we cannot know."

The 2011 TV documentary The Egyptian Job said that tomb robbers in antiquity had smashed down the wooden doors and (using known era mechanical advantage devices) merely slid the quartzite blocks aside to gain entry. Petrie then found the empty tomb when thinking there would be treasure in it - www.natgeotv.com/int/the-egyptian-job/about