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The Tombs of the Pyramid Builders: The Tomb of the Artisan Petety and His Curse

Zahi Hawass, 2004. Egypt, Israel, and the Ancient Mediterranean World (Brill).

The workers' cemetery found in 1990 west of the Heit el-Ghurab settlement: mudbrick tombs of overseers and workers with titles, and skeletons with healed injuries.

MYS0CSMNN502D05 · mystery · click to copyMHow the Great Pyramid was builtChapterdoi: 10.1163/9789047413691_003Checked against the original0

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Cited for the cemetery and the titles of the workers.

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Hawass, Z. (2004). The Tombs of the Pyramid Builders: The Tomb of the Artisan Petety and His Curse. Egypt, Israel, and the Ancient Mediterranean World (Brill). https://doi.org/10.1163/9789047413691_003
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