In 1895–96, William Matthew Flinders Petrie and
James Edward Quibell discovered a shaft-tomb below
the ‘Ramesseum', the funerary temple of Ramses II
at Thebes, Egypt. This is most famous for having
the largest group of Middle Kingdom papyri – also
known as the Ramesseum Papyri – found in a single
spot together with a number of distinctive objects,
such as carved ivory tusks and miniature figurines
in various materials dated around XVIII century BC.
Gianluca Miniaci attempts to thoroughly reconstruct
the archaeological context of the tomb ...
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