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Thebes, its Tombs and their Tenants Ancient and Present - Including a Record of Excavations in the Necropolis (Paperback)
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Thebes, its Tombs and their Tenants Ancient and Present - Including a Record of Excavations in the Necropolis (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology
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His independent means as the son of a wealthy banker enabled
Alexander Henry Rhind (1833 63) to devote his short life to
antiquarianism. While reading for the Scottish bar, he studied and
investigated Pictish remains, and pressed for the inclusion of
archaeological sites in Ordnance Survey maps. On developing
tubercular symptoms, he gave up his legal studies and passed the
winters from 1855 to 1857 in Egypt, where he made the important
studies and excavations recorded in this 1862 book. He focuses on
the necropolis of Thebes, and in particular on the unplundered tomb
of an eighteenth-dynasty official. Putting his work into the wider
context of the history of ancient Egypt and the importance of the
city of Thebes, he also describes the reuse of the necropolis ruins
as homes for modern Egyptian peasants and as the centre of a
thriving trade in antiquities, both genuine and forged."
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