Saqqara Bird Saqqara Bird The Saqqara Bird is a bird-shaped artifact made of sycamore wood, discovered during the 1898 excavation of the Pa-di-Imen tomb in Saqqara, Egypt. It has been dated to approximately 200 BCE, and is now housed in the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo. The Saqqara Bird has a wingspan of and weighs . Its function is not understood because of a lack of period documentation. Some think the Saqqara Bird may be a ceremonial object because the falcon, the bird after which the Saqqara Bird is modeled, is the form most commonly used to represent several of the
Arkansas City Country Club site site. Arkansas City Country Club site The Arkansas City Country Club Site (14CO3), near Arkansas City, Kansas, is a archeological site of prehistoric village with graves/burials. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 for its potential to yield information in the future. The site is located near the Walnut River, in or near Creswell Township. The site includes man-made mounds, some of which contain burials. The site was first excavated in 1916. In 1994 and 1996, archaeologists excavating the site consulted with the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, the likely descendants of the people who built