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2020 · 10993 — Peter Lang 2020. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover 475 pages copiously illustrated with colour and b&w photos maps plans and drawings NOT ex-library. Limited gentle wear. Book is clean and bright with unmarked text free of inscriptions and stamps firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- The book presents the discoveries made by the Polish archaeological mission in Saqqara the central part of the largest ancient Egyptian royal necropolis. The area adjacent to the Pyramid of King Djoser on the monument's west side so far neglected by archaeologists turned out to be an important burial place of the Egyptian nobility from two periods of Pharaonic history: the Old Kingdom the late third millennium BC and the Ptolemaic Period the late first millennium BC. The earlier lower cemetery yielded rock-hewn tombs with splendid wall decoration in relief and painting. The book also describes methods of conservation applied to the discovered artefacts and episodes from the mission's life. -- Contents: Introduction; Bibliography; Chronological table; 1 History and archaeology: Saqqara in Egyptian history 2 From Edfu to Saqqara: Polish archaeology in the Nile Valley 3 First steps 4 The vizier's revenge 5 A testimony to stormy times 6 In the realm of Osiris 7 Cult of the dead 8 The vizier's posthumous neighbour 9 Behind the scenes of family bliss 10 Renaissance of the necropolis after two thousand years 11 Primum non nocere or the medicine of artefacts 12 The rest is silence; Extroduction; Glossary of deities; Glossary of archaeological terms; Glossary of foreign expressions and words; List of figures; Illustrations; Photographs; Figures Authors of the drawings; Authors of the photographs; Deities <br/> <br/> Peter Lang hardcover