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		Verner, Miroslav - Hawass, Zahi a další [autor kapitoly]: The Pyramids of the Fifth Dynasty; In: The Treasures of the Pyramids.
		Verner, Miroslav: Discovery and Clearance of the Intact Tomb of Iufaa at Abusir [I].
		Verner, Miroslav: The Tomb of Iufaa at Abusir [I].
	svi.ff.cuni.cz /v/verner.htm (1186 words)

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		In the words of Miroslav Verner, the director of the expedition, "the discovery of the large shaft tomb...
		Verner preferred the cenotaph theory, and persisted in that belief in spite of the later discovery of the Amasis tablets which, in the context of the traditional history, made that theory more untenable.
		When Verner argued his secondary burial and cenotaph hypotheses he was not basing his assumption alone on the empty inner sarcophogus.
	www.kent.net /DisplacedDynasties/Udjahorresne's_Tomb.htm (3308 words)

	Necropolis of Deir el-Medina - Crystalinks
		However, in Miroslav Verner's recent publication, The Pyramids, he seems less sure in regards to both the structures nature and the owner. While perhaps not as well known as Lehner, Verner is also a very well respected Egyptologist from the Czech Institute.
		Verner seems to believe that it is just as likely that the structure was a stepped mastaba, but then is not that, perhaps in an evolved state, the nature of Djoser's pyramid?
		Verner also tells us that the long entrance corridor is at first horizontal and open and then becomes a descending vaulted tunnel, a plan he seems to think resembles a Third Dynasty mastaba in Beit Khallaf.
	www.crystalinks.com /pyrintermediate.html (1448 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Travel \| Forty years and still digging (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Even armed with a copy of Ludwig Borchardt's theoretical reconstruction of the cemetery, showing the three pyramid complexes of the 5th dynasty Pharaohs Sahure, Neferirkare and Niuserre -- each with pyramid, mortuary temple, causeway and valley temple -- it is difficult to recognise this as one of the major archaeological sites in Egypt.
		Verner said his workers called them batn el-baqara, "cow's belly," because that was what the smooth stone reminded them of.
		A small limestone temple was erected in front of the east face of the tomb, later extended and modified by the Pharaoh Niuserre, Neferefre's younger brother and successor.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/534/tr2.htm (1950 words)

	Spatial Organization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Verner (2001) speculates that the trench may have been influenced by a canal (or moat?) around the royal palace at Memphis.
		What appear to be doorways are, in fact, niches “into which a symbol of the god was inserted at some time” (Verner 2001), presumably during the Sed festival, but we cannot rule out posthumous reenactments of the festival and ritual placement of the symbols/statues then.
		Lehner (1997) seems ready to accept her as a ruling queen or regent between the time of Djet and Djen, and her monumental funerary structures certainly imply such a distinction, but I am content here simply to acknowledge that she is treated like a king in funerary architecture.
	www.ancientearth.org /spatial_organization.htm (4871 words)

	/tr_egypt.asp?id=43 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		From this it would appear that the labour force trained under the earlier Pharaohs was released from large- scale pyramid construction, and those resources that previously went into the building of funerary monuments were channelled into the construction of the sun temples.
		These bore such names as Pleasure of Re, Horizon of Re, and Field of Re, and are located on the west bank of the Nile, in the middle of the Giza/Memphite necropolis with pyramids and mortuary temples that, Verner said, relate to the royal mortuary cult and the afterlife.
		As for the location of the missing sun temples," Verner said, "a theory originally presented by the German scholar Werner Kaiser is gaining currency.
	www.treasuregategallery.com /tr_egypt.asp?id=43 (1040 words)

	Skate Today : Verner is a Winner
		Verner began skating when he was six years old.
		Verner used to do karate, play soccer, and participate in track and field including the high jump, long jump, and sprints.
		Verner is in his first year studying psychology at a university in Prague.
	www.skatetoday.com /articles0506/110705.htm (791 words)

	Egypt: The Pyramids of Ibi, Khui and the Headless Pyramid Pyramids of the First Intermediate Period (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		If Lehner and Verner differ on their interpretations of the so called Khui pyramid, they completely disagree with the possible dating and ownership of the Headless Pyramid, located in the northern part of the Saqqara necropolis.
		They both seem to agree that it was most probably a pyramid, but Verner seems to believe that it belonged to Niuserre's son and successor, Menkauhor, of the 5th Dynasty, while Lehner thinks it was a First Intermediate Period pyramid possibly belonging to Merikare who probably ruled during the 9th or 10th dynasty.
		However, he quotes earlier examinations, particularly that of Maragioglio and Rinaldi, that point out the structural similarities between this pyramid and that of Teti, the first ruler of the 6th Dynasty, a view that seems to also be held by Lauer and Jean Leclant who also studied this and surrounding structures.
	www.bonus.com /contour/egytptian_safari/http@@/www.touregypt.net/featurestories/fipp.htm (1710 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Pyramids: The Mystery, Culture, and Science of Egypt's Great Monuments: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Director of the Egyptology Institute of Charles University in Prague and leader of the Czech excavations at Abusir's Fifth Dynasty pyramid field, Verner has assembled the first comprehensive study of Egypt's pyramids since the revised edition of the late I.E.S. Edwards's classic The Pyramids of Egypt and Ahmed Fakhry's The Pyramids (both o.p.).
		Verner notes that the name "sphinx" is our transliteration of the Greek transliteration of shesep-ankh or "living image".
		Verner insists that the consensus is that Khafre carved the Sphinx, but later writes "(Khufu?)" and nowhere that I saw mentions Stadelman's establishment that the Sphinx was probably carved by Khufu.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0802117031 (771 words)

	An Unplundered Tomb - - science news articles online technology magazine articles An Unplundered Tomb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		For the past 30 years, Miroslav Verner of the Czech Institute of Egyptology in Prague has been working at Abusir, methodically mapping, digging, and preserving.
		Verner found 408 blue-glazed faience ushabti, small figures representing servants of the deceased in the underworld, flanking Iufaa's giant white limestone sarcophagus.
		After lifting the two-ton lid of the outer sarcophagus, Verner found a smaller, inner sarcophagus of fl-green rock, whose lid was decorated with a man's face.
	www.discover.com /issues/sep-98/departments/anunplunderedtom1505 (539 words)

	News: The Prague Post Online
		The funerary priest or first-born son touched the mouth, eyes, ears, nose and limbs of the deceased, waking all the senses.
		In the mid-1970s, soon after Verner became director, the Egyptian Antiquities Organization granted the Czechs exclusive permission to explore Abusir's south field, south of the Giza pyramids.
		Above one of Verner's beloved bookshelves hangs a portrait of a white-bearded man. His arm rests on a sphinx and his left holds a papyrus manuscript.
	www.praguepost.cz /news122000a.html (1970 words)

	Czech Egyptologists Open Shaft Tomb, Identify Royal Burial at Abusir
		In 1996 a small archaeological team of the Czech Institute of Egyptology at Charles University in Prague directed by Miroslav Verner located the burial chamber at the bottom of a shaft more than 80 feet below the desert floor.
		In 1998, Verner's architect raised the two-ton sarcophagus lid with jacks, inserting wooden wedges and then blocks of wood along its edges.
		Verner's team has also finished excavations of the substructure of Neferefre's pyramid at Abusir.
	www.he.net /~archaeol/online/news/egypt2.html (732 words)

	IPM/AUC - Abusir
		This is Abusir, realm of Osiris, God of the dead, and its story is one of both modern archaeology and the long-buried mysteries that it seeks to uncover.
		Dr. Miroslav Verner of the Charles University in Prague has been leading the excavations in Abusir since 1976.
		Drawing on his own experience as well as the full range of historical material from early excavations, Dr. Verner brings to life a world as distant in time as its uncovered remains are immediate and striking.
	www.internationalpubmarket.com /clients/auc/books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=104561 (231 words)

	The Pyramids: The Mystery,Culture,and Science of Egypt's Great Monuments
		Miroslav Verner, a preeminent Egyptologist, recounts the history of ancient Egypt and describes the religious and political beliefs that gave rise to its great pyramids.
		He illuminates the technical, material, and organizational brilliance of the architects and workers who built these structures five thousand years ago, without iron or bronze and with only the most elementary systems of calculation.
		As he explains the magnitude of this accomplishment, Verner also traces the history of the pyramids' discovery and the endless myths and theories about who built them and why.
	www.zooscape.com /cgi-bin/maitred/WhitePulp/isbn0802117031 (358 words)

	The Pyramids: The Mystery, Culture, and Science of Egypt's Great Monuments by Miroslav Verner by Steven Rendall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Hailed by Science News as "the new seminal text," The Pyramids is the most up-to-date, comprehensive record of Egypt's ancient monuments to become available in the last six decades.
		Distinguished Egyptologist Miroslav Verner draws from the research of the earliest Egyptologists as well as the startling discoveries arising from the technological advances of the 1980s and 1990s.
		His Pyramids offers a clear, authoritative guide to the ancient culture that created the pyramids five thousand years ago without iron or bronze, and with only the most elementary systems of calculation.
	www.brightsurf.com /shop/0802139353/detail (902 words)

	Egyptology News» Blog Archive » Czech Egyptologists in Egypt
		Verner has just received a grant which will enable it to continue its work in Abusir for another 7 years.
		Miroslav Verner, long-term head of the Czech archaeological expedition in Egypt, told the Czech Archaeology Abroad conference that the royal buildings were probably situated at the border between the Nile valley and large burial grounds.
		Czech archaeologists have also uncovered a number of shaft graves in Abusir dating back to 530-525 B.C. One of the large tombs they have studied belonged to admiral Wedjahor-Resne, labelled as ‘the traitor of Egypt’ over his collaboration with the Persians, said Czech Egyptologist Ladislav Bares.
	touregypt.net /TEBlog/egyptologynews/?p=1174 (471 words)

	Concave GP Faces
		Maragioglio and Rinaldi described a similar concavity on the pyramid of Menkaure, the third pyramid at Giza.
		Miroslav Verner wrote that the faces of the Red Pyramid at Dahshur are also "slightly concave."
		Verner agreed: "As in the case of the earlier Red Pyramid, the slightly concave walls were intended to increase the stability of the pyramid's mantle [i.e.
	www.catchpenny.org /concave.html (1025 words)

	The Pyramids Book at Shop Ireland
		Verner certainly knows his stuff and what he knows as fact he states as fact.
		i will be certainly looking out + buying more of verner's books.
		It is the definitive book on the subject.Great text,clear illustrations.
	www.shopireland.ie /books/detail/1843541718/The-Pyramids (323 words)

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		Verner and Dr. Bares I would like to ask you for publishing on the ANE-conference the following text.
		It is to be stressed, moreover, that the National Geographic team did not film the recording, measuring and discussing steps.
		Miroslav Verner (Director, Czech Institute of Egyptology) & Dr. Ladislav Bares (Excavator of Iufaa's tomb).
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/ANE/ANENEWS-DIGEST/1999/v1999.n183 (805 words)

	PYRAMIDS by Verner, Miroslav, VERNER, MIROSLAV (PROFESSOR, CHARLES UNIVERSITY, PRAGUE, CZE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		They have uncovered edifices buried for centuriesunder the desert sand and new technology has enabled them to conduct extensive investigations of the pharaohs' tombs.
		What culture, politics, and religion stood behind this extraordinary achievement?In The Pyramids, Miroslav Verner, one of the world's most celebrated pyramidresearchers, presents the most up-to-date account of what we know about the pyramids.
		He re-creates vividly the history of ancient Egyptian culture before andduring the period of the pyramids, as well as the remarkable story of modernEgyptology, which began when Napoleon's troops conquered Egypt two hundredyears ago.
	www.studentbookworld.com /BookDetail/1903809452.html (162 words)

	Egyptian mummy uncovered
		There was an audible gasp when the enormous sarcophagus lid was raised, exposing a second, smaller, ornately decorated casket.
		"The tomb was found beautifully decorated," says professor Miroslav Verner, director of the Czech Institute of Egyptology.
		It is part of a cluster of tombs and pyramids that dates back as far as 2,500BC.
	www.exn.ca /html/templates/printstory.cfm?ID=1998030202 (601 words)

	Book Reviews II
		This is not a casual read, it is a outstanding piece of scholarship and is perfect for those of us with a facination with ancient Egypt.
		Miroslav Verner is a professor at Charles University in Prague and was director of the Czech Institute of Egyptology.
		He has collected the most current knowledge about every archalogical site in Egypt, where leading scholar differ, he presents the differing theories.
	www.xprogramming.com /xpmag/ceoOfTheSofa.htm (322 words)

	Books: Editors' Picks
		How about Miroslav Verner's The Pyramids: The Mystery, Culture, and Science of Egypt's Great Monuments (New York: Grove Press, 2001; $35.00) or Martin Isler's Sticks, Stones, & Shadows: Building the Egyptian Pyramids (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001; $29.95) instead?
		Verner, head of the Czech excavations at Abusir, presents an overview (chapters on origins and construction, as well as burial and mortuary cult) and comprehensive catalog of pyramids.
		Silly ideas--like the claim the Giza pyramids were built in 10,000 B.C. rather than around 2500 B.C.--are dismissed in an epilogue.
	www.archaeology.org /0201/reviews/picks.html (479 words)

	johnelkington.com - influences.
		Interesting to learn from Verner that under certain conditions, with varying temperatured layers near the horizon, an optical illusion can turn the sun's disk into a step pyramid, like those at Saqqara.
		Certainly this would be an advance on the Pharaohs: I haven't heard of any of them entering into direct conversation with those pillaging or studying their tombs.
		Having bought Verner's book together with The Rough Guide to Cyprus a few weeks before Christmas, I seem to be limbering up for further Near and Middle Eastern travels, with Crete, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran and Iraq all apparently on the ambitions list.
	www.johnelkington.com /weblog/2003_12_01_arc.html (2694 words)

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		From the ancient culture that created the pyramids to the excavation sites that have been discovered to date, Verner, a preeminent Egyptologist, recounts the history of ancient Egypt and describes the religious and political beliefs that gave rise to its great monuments.
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	Pyramids; Author: Verner, Miroslav (Professor, Charles University, Prague, Cze; Hardback; Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Author: Verner, Miroslav (Professor, Charles University, Prague, Cze
		Miroslav Verner, one of the world's most celebrated pyramid researchers, presents the most up-to-date account of what we know about the pyramids.
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