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AFTER an introductory chapter describing the site of the excavations and the nature of the results, Mr. Garstang deals with the continuity of early history and the place of the third Egyptian dynasty in ancient history. Three chapters are then devoted to stairway tombs, to their construction, special features, and objects from them, respectively. The evolution of stairway tombs is discussed in a later chapter. Other sections of the volume are devoted to the necropolis, burial customs, burials under pottery vessels, objects from the smaller tombs, and the archæology of the third dynasty. There are thirty-three full-page plates containing a large number of good illustrations.
Tombs of the Third Egyptian Dynasty at Reqâqnah and Bêt Khallâf.
Report of Excavations at Reqâqnah, 1901–2. By John Garstang. Pp. 70 + xxxiii plates. (Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., Ltd., 1904.) Price 21s. net.
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Tombs of the Third Egyptian Dynasty at Reqâqnah and Bêt Khallâf . Nature 69, 486 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069486b0
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