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1 - Studying the Pyramid Age

from Part i - Orientation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2024

Richard Bussmann
Richard Bussmann
Affiliation:
Universität zu Köln
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Anyone who investigates an artefact from ancient Egypt will soon discover a human dimension; the fingerprint of a potter impressed on a bowl, or a correction made by an accountant on a sheet of papyrus. It is exciting to discover that people who lived millennia ago seem to have been like ‘us’. Yet the funerary beliefs of the ancient Egyptians, the gigantic pyramids of Giza, and the god-like pharaohs remain enigmatic, and it is the recognition that people imagined the world differently in the past that fascinates most people today. This book explores the gulf between pots and pyramids, between shared human experience and what sets Egypt apart from other societies.

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The Archaeology of Pharaonic Egypt
Society and Culture, 2700–1700 BC
 , pp. 3 - 15
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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