Dating the tombs of the Egyptian Old Kingdom /

The decorated tombs of the Egyptian Old Kingdom offer detailed knowledge of a society that in all probability was the first nation state in history. Yet scholars continue to find it difficult to access the full potential of this great body of data because so few of the tombs can be dated with suffic...

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Main Author: Swinton, Joyce (Egyptologist) (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Oxford : Archaeopress, [2014]

Series: Archaeopress Egyptology ; 2.

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