I am not the one who put this discovery in the number two spot on the list of the top 10 archaeological discoveries in Egypt. This was done by Atlantic Productions when they compiled their list for their Discovery Channel. I feel privileged, however, to have been a part of the discovery of the cemetery of the pyramid builders, which has shown the world for the first time that the Pyramids were not built by slaves but by the ancient Egyptians themselves. I am honoured my name is connected with its discovery.
The story began when I wrote in my doctoral dissertation for the University of Pennsylvania that the workmen's area logically should be located behind a certain limestone wall with a gate built into it. I said that this wall, known as Heit Al-Ghorab (wall of the crow), was built to separate the royal Pyramids from the workmen who built them. I gave evidence in my dissertation to support my theory. In 1987, I talked with my friend Mark Lehner, and we decided to cooperate and work together in the area to the south of the wall. The excavation was very strange, because we found skeletons and also grain. Work on the excavation stopped, and Mark left to teach in Chicago, staying away from Giza for a few years.
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