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Sacred Animals at Saqqara [PDF]
Saqqara, the necropolis of the first capital city of a unified Egypt, is best known today for the Step Pyramid of Pharaoh Djoser (2667–2648 B.C.). However, the Step Pyramid is only the most visible feature of this great burial site, and the tombs of many
Paul Nicholson
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Philippe Collombert +4 more
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The western bank of the Dry Moat continued to be the main target of investigations in the 2017 field season, uncovering another section of the Upper Necropolis in front of Chapel 13 and exploring the burial chamber of Chapel 32 situated below that of ...
Kamil O. Kuraszkiewicz +1 more
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The Legacy of Prince Khaemwaset at Saqqara
Saqqara in particular, and the Memphite necropolis in general, constituted the arena for the prolific and significant monumental self-presentations of Prince Khaemwaset, fourth son of King Ramesses II (c. 1279–1213 BCE).
Campbell Price
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The Leiden-Turin Excavations at Saqqara
This article highlights the history of almost 50 years of Leiden archaeological work at Saqqara, in the cemetery south of the Unas causeway, and places the recent findings of the current Leiden-Turin Expedition within a broader historical context, both ...
Lara Weiss, Christian Greco
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Problematique generale de la fouille : evolution du plan d’urbanisme d’une necropole royale d'Ancien Empire et Textes des Pyramides. 1. Travaux realises 1.1. Le complexe funeraire de la reine Ankhnespepy II L'essentiel du travail archeologique s'est concentre sur le ...
Philippe Collombert +4 more
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Fieldwork of the Polish–Egyptian Mission to Saqqara in the 2020 season continued on the eastern bank of the Dry Moat, resulting in the discovery of a rock-cut structure directly south of Corridor 1.
Kamil O. Kuraszkiewicz +2 more
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The Memphite Necropolis of Saqqara is situated approximately 20 km south of modern Cairo on a plateau at the edge of the western desert and was in use as a funerary site for a period of nearly three and a half millennia.
Scott Williams
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The paper presents the exploration of the eastern bank of the Dry Moat by a team from the University of Warsaw, extending further south from the section unearthed in 2001.
Kamil O. Kuraszkiewicz +2 more
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Saqqara 2012: the pottery [PDF]
The pottery analyzed this season was associated with the Lower Necropolis (areasof Chapel 14 of Ikhi/Mery and Chapel 13) from the late Old Kingdom as well as the UpperNecropolis from the Late through Roman periods, extant in this region.
Teodozja I. Rzeuska
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