Archaeology · Egyptology & Near Eastern Archaeology
A topic within Egyptology & Near Eastern Archaeology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Archaeology.
2 works
Howard Carter & A. C. Mace
Recounts the discovery of the only largely intact royal burial found in the Valley of the Kings, arguing its undisturbed grave goods let Egyptologists reconstruct royal burial practice in far more detail than any looted tomb could.
W. M. Flinders Petrie
Publishes the excavation of the Abydos royal necropolis as proof that Egypt already had kings, monumental tomb architecture and hieroglyphic writing well before the Old Kingdom pyramids.
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