Egypt's oldest pyramid is 4600 years old

Committed a crime while trying to restore Egypt's oldest pyramid?  Oh oh .... the restoration company better  be careful or else that Sisi character might sentence them to death. Death sentences are becoming very common in Egypt under the new dictator.

Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan writing at Gizmodo:
 Egypt's Oldest Pyramid Is Being Destroyed By the Company Hired to Fix It

Saqqara, in Egypt, is the oldest stone complex ever built by humans—and within it sits the oldest pyramid in Egypt. It's a piece of irreplaceable history that's been crumbling for 4,600 years. But according to one local report, it's currently being destroyed by the company hired to "restore" it.

In fact, the company hired by Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities may have even committed a crime in its restoration. According to the Egypt Independent, preservation laws require that any new construction be less than 5 percent of the preserved structure. Instead, the company—which has reportedly never worked on a preservation project before!—constructed a number of new walls and structures that exceed the limit.



Now, that might not be such a huge deal. Buildings can be torn down. But according to activists speaking in the story, the new construction is actually contributing to the collapse of the pyramid, which is considered the oldest cut stone structure in the world.

You see, back in 1992, a major earthquake hit the region, and it nearly destroyed the pyramid. It sent "tons" of stone, broken free from the structure, down into the base, and created a "dome-shaped" void at its top, in the words of archaeologist Peter James, who says it was "liable to collapse at any time.".....