Yep, this is another “things that get lost in the sand” post. This time archaeologists in Egypt think they have found the pyramid of Pharaoh Menkauhor, which had been lost for 166 years. How do you lose a pyramid? Well, because only the base remains (the article doesn’t say, but I’m guessing the rest of the structure was looted by later builders) and that can easily get hidden by the shifting sand. In fact workers had to dig a 15-foot deep pit to get to the pyramid.

The pyramid was first discovered in 1842 by the German archaeologist, Karl Richard Lepsius, but it got buried and the location was lost. All that it was known was that it was somewhere in place called Saqqara, the necropolis for Memphis. Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s chief of antiquities, is quoted as saying that only a third of what lies underground at Saqqara has yet been discovered.

All of which would doubtless make our old friend HPL very happy. Even if archaeologists think they have found Irem of the Pillars, there could always be other lost cities out there in the sand.