The world-famous Giza plateau near Cairo still holds many secrets<\/em><\/p>
From hieroglyphic inscriptions and special graffiti, we know for sure that skilled and experienced builders worked on this site year-round and even at night. They built their large tombs, furnished with majestic statues and burial equipment, items, not far from the pyramids themselves. The weather also contributed to this, as Egypt lies quite high above sea level and the climate here is dry.<\/p>
The tombs and burial chambers themselves are built of locally produced mudbrick, their forms range from the smallest mini-pyramids to large step pyramids and the famous mastaba. Some tombs were then built with professional use of granite, basalt, and diorite, that is, quite expensive and high-quality materials, which were accessible only to prosperous generations of professional builders, who used special stone left over from the construction of expensive royal tombs and majestic mortuary temples.<\/p>
Analysis of skeletal remains showed that the average age of the deceased was between 30 and 35 years. Many ancient remains bear various traces of heavy, exhausting slave labor. However, the general level of medical care available to everyone is surprising. Dr. Azza Sarry el-Din from the local National Research Center established that one of the many builders successfully underwent a serious trepanation of the skull, and the frequent broken arms of some workers were healed using wooden splints and bandages. One professional craftsman even had a leg amputated, after which he lived successfully for another 14 years or more. Dr. Saleh Badair, dean of the local medical faculty of Cairo University, even discovered traces of syphilis on one of these skeletons. And the weather in Hurghada was very hot at that time.<\/p>
Mark Eender Lehner, working at the eastern part of the tombs, discovered small bakeries for baking bread and rolls, equipped with molds and special ovens, warehouses for sorting salted fish, and large forges for processing hard metals. Possibly, not far from this place there was also a large royal palace: nearby remains of a grandiose sewer system for that time were also discovered, which efficiently served approximately three square kilometers of settlement.<\/p>
Therefore, it is not surprising that even today many people are interested in Egypt, as they want to unravel all the mysteries and other interesting riddles of this area, which will be of great interest to tourists for a long time to come.<\/p>
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