Merer's diary Archaeologists found hundreds of papyrus fragments in the caves at Wadi al-Jarf. Written in black and red ink, the texts mention Pharaoh Khufu.

A Detailed Record Of Activities. The papyri give a record of several months of work. Merer’s crew transported limestone blocks from the Tura quarry that lies upstream of the Giza site.

Discovered in 2013, the Diary of Merer is the name of a logbook detailing the transportation of limestone from Tura to Giza during the 4th Dynasty. Tipped as one of the most important finds of the ...

Among the documents discovered there over the last six years, a joint French-Egyptian team unearthed the diary of Merer, an official involved in the construction of the Great Pyramid.The ...

The diary of an overseer has revealed the secrets of how the Pyramid of Khufu was built. U.S. ... The ancient text described how Merer's team dug huge canals to channel the water of the Nile to ...

The Diary of Merer was discovered during a French mission led by archaeologists Pierre Tallet of Paris-Sorbonne University in a cave in Wadi al-Jard. The text is written with ...

Keeping a diary isn't as prevalent. Yet historians of the future will want to know how ordinary people survived "I am just going to write because I can’t help it,” wrote Charlotte Brontë, in ...

The World’s Oldest Papyrus and What It Can Tell Us About the Great Pyramids Ancient Egyptians leveraged a massive shipping, mining and farming economy to propel their civilization forward ...

Merer’s diary reveals that the limestone was taken from the Tora quarry in boats, and that blocks were ferried to the site on man-made canals. Merer’s diary says that his crew opened giant dykes to ...