THE HIDDEN TOMBS OF MEMPHIS: New Discoveries...
THE HIDDEN TOMBS OF MEMPHIS: New Discoveries From the Time of Tutankhamun and Ramesses the Great by Geoffrey T. Martin (Thames and Hudson: $19.95; 216 pp., illustrated). People tend to regard Egyptian archeology as a finished story--everything important has already been found and put into museums. Geoffrey Martin disproves the popular shibboleth in his first-hand account of the recent rediscovery of the tombs of such historical personages as Maya, the treasurer of Tutankhamun, and Horemheb, King Tut’s commander-in-chief and later pharaoh in his own right. Martin shows that the sandy soil of Egypt continues to yield surprises that augment our knowledge of the ancient world.
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