Zakaria Goneim
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Muhammed Zakaria Goneim (1905 — 1959) was an Egyptian archaeologist, known for his discoveries in and around Saqqara.
Before World War II, Goneim worked at Saqqara (on temple on Unas). He spent the war in Luxor and then returned to Saqarra to work on the Step Pyramid of Sekhemkhet in close association with Lauer who was working on the Step Pyramid of Djoser.
He thought he had found an intact burial, as the seals of the alabaster sarcophagus were undamaged, but proved not to be so.
His career ended when he was accused of stealing and smuggling of antiquities, and even though there was no proof (and Lauer had found proof of his innocence) drowned himself in the Nile in 1959.
[edit] Publications
- The Buried Pyramid
