![]() ![]() The Seila Pyramidįrom an inscription on one of two stelae found at the base of the east face of the Seila Pyramid, the team learned that the builder was Snefru, father of Khufu or Cheops. This article describes the major findings of the team’s research to date. Although the initial genetic and textile results were limited to a few significant conclusions about family relationships and material circumstances of those Christian burials, the cutting-edge research methods developed and employed proved to be very illuminating.īecause of the expertise the team developed in that effort, it was invited in 1992 by the Egyptian Antiquities Organization to do textile and genetic studies on the noble mummies from Akhmim and the Egyptian Royal Mummies. The team has uncovered hundreds of unplundered burials in the cemetery, including two extremely significant pre-Christian burials, and the team’s work has yielded new information about the lives of early Christians and ancient pharaohs in Egypt. ![]() Since 1981, a team from Brigham Young University has been excavating in the Fayum in Egypt 1 at both an Old Kingdom Pyramid (the Seila Pyramid) and a Greco-Roman cemetery. ![]()
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