Resumen de Uncovered: Egypt's lost city of bean counters
During the reign of the pharaoh Menkaure, thought to be between 2532 and 2503 BC, Egypt was run from a city on low ground near the Giza plateau. Known as Heit el-Ghurab, this was a large administrative center surrounded by houses, workshops and bread ovens. After decades of occupation, it was abandoned and buried under tens of meters of sand. Karl Butzer of the University of Texas at Austin and colleagues have been excavating Heit el-Ghurab since 2001. They discovered layers of muds and sands, which they dated by identifying the relics in them, as well as radiocarbon dating. The team found that the site was hit by three floods in 26 years during the reign of the previous pharaoh, Khafre
