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Abusir

Miroslav Verner

2002248 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2002
first published
  • 2002American University in Cairo Press · ENGISBN 9781617972270
  • 2002American University in Cairo Press · ENGISBN 9781617974731
  • 2002American University in Cairo Press · 248 pages · ENGISBN 9789774247231
  • 2004American University in Cairo Press · ENGISBN 9781306504201
  • 2017American University in Cairo Press · 419 pages · ENGISBN 9789774167904

At the center of the world-famous pyramid field of the Memphite necropolis lies a group of pyramids, temples, and tombs named after the nearby village of Abusir. Long overshadowed by the more familiar pyramids at Giza and Saqqara, this area has nonetheless been the site, for the last fifty years, of an extensive operation to discover its past.This thoroughly updated in-depth study documents the uncovering by a dedicated team of Czech archaeologists of a hitherto neglected wealth of ancient remains dating from the Old Kingdom to the Late Period. This is Abusir, realm of Osiris, God of the dead, and its story is one of both modern archaeology and the long-buried mysteries that it seeks to uncover.

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