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ALL who are interested in the serious attempts that are being made to reconstruct the real history of ancient Egypt and to sift established truth from wild conjecture must deplore Prof. Flinders Petrie's attempt (see NATURE of September 29, p. 401) to revivify the corpse of a belief in the supposition that the archaic Egyptians were in the habit of cutting up their dead, a view which has been so effectually hanged, drawn, and quartered during the last ten years.
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SMITH, G. Early Burial Customs in Egypt. Nature 84, 461–462 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084461d0
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