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Long Live the Step Pyramid!

open access: yesHeritage, 2022
The paper discusses the role of the funerary complex built for Netjerykhet (Djoser) in the landscape of Memphis and Saqqara necropolis as a ritual, cultural and visual reference point. Additionally, an interpretation of its meaning and purpose, including
Kamil Omar Kuraszkiewicz
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A rediscovered wooden statue of the overseer of the two granaries Ihy – Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 100373: An archaeological and conservation study [PDF]

open access: yesPražské Egyptologické Studie, 2021
This paper discusses the wooden statue JE 100373, which was recently re discovered in the basement of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Based on the statue’s stylistic analysis and its identification in the unpublished excavation report MSS Gunn XXII, we re ...
Philipp Seyr , Abd El Rahman Medhat
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Das Photoarchiv H.W. Müller der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
Mit Unterstützung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft erwarb die Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg 1986 das umfangreiche Photo-Archiv des 1991 verstorbenen Ägyptologen Hans Wolfgang Müller. Die Photos stammen von ausgedehnten Reisen H.W.
Franke, Detlef
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Saqqara: seasons 2012 and 2013/2014/ Appendix: Conservation work in Saqqara (2012 and 2014) [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2016
After having finished the excavation in a zone located west of the Step Pyramid andspanning the area between the pyramid enclosure wall and the eastern border of the Dry Moat, thePolish–Egyptian mission started a new project aiming at a complex ...
Karol Myśliwiec   +2 more
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The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology first opened its doors in 1915, and since then has attracted visitors from all over the world as well as providing valuable teaching resources. Named after its founder, the pioneering archaeologist Flinders Petrie,
Stevenson, AE
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Saqqara 2012 and 2015: inscriptions [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2017
Numerous fragments of decorated limestone blocks attributed to the funerary chapel of the God’s Sealer Ikhi/Mery were found during the 2012 and 2015 seasons of Polish excavations in Saqqara.
Kamil O. Kuraszkiewicz
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Living amongst the Dead: Life at the Ancient Memphite Necropolis of Saqqara during the Late Period/Early Ptolemaic Era

open access: yesHeritage, 2022
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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Exhibition Season: Annual Archaeological Exhibitions in London, 1880s-1930s [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Annual archaeological exhibitions were a visible symbol of archaeological research. Held mainly in London, the displays encapsulated a network of archaeologists, artists, architects and curators, and showcased the work of the first generations of trained
Thornton, A
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Some newly uncovered blocks from the tomb of Rashepses at Saqqara [PDF]

open access: yesPražské Egyptologické Studie, 2017
The tomb of the Vizier, Rashepses, located in Saqqara to the north of Netjerykhet’s pyramid complex, belongs among the large and complex mastabas of the late Fifth Dynasty.
Hany El-Tayeb
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The Leiden-Turin Excavations at Saqqara

open access: yesHeritage, 2022
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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