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Egypt's first antiquarians?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Aidan Dodson
Aidan Dodson*
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Under King Sesostris III (Twelfth Dynasty) two sarcophagi of the Third Dynasty seem to have been removed from tombs below the Step Pyramid and buried within the king's pyramid enclosure, probably as a kind offoundation deposit to complement the complex's imitation of Third Dynasty forms. Their extraction is perhaps our earliest evidence for subterranean exploration based on effectively antiquarian motives.

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Antiquity , Volume 62 , Issue 236 , September 1988, pp. 513 - 517
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988

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