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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 23:35, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
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Bab el-Gasus
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The 1891 discovery on the cover of L'Illustration
- ... that the largest intact Ancient Egyptian tomb ever found, with 254 richly decorated sarcophagi, was forgotten for almost a century? Source: REDISCOVERING THE TOMB OF THE PRIESTS OF AMUN, 2021: “The Tomb of the Priests of Amun, also known as Bab el-Gasus, is the largest undisturbed tomb ever found in Egypt... In the year 1891, within its galleries, Eugéne Grébaut and Georges Daressy unearthed a vast hoard of funerary equipment consisting of 254 coffins... However, with the onset of World War I, such research was discontinued, and from this point on, the find was largely forgotten. The collections sent out of Egypt witnessed the turbulent political and historical circumstances that would deeply affect the world. Indeed, the rapid succession of Two World Wars has greatly contributed to global ignorance of these collections, by the public and scholars alike, especially as most objects languished in storerooms in Europe, and couldn’t be put on any kind of display… During the 1980’s Andrzej Niwiński was the first author to carry out a holistic approach to the inscribed sources of the 21st Dynasty. Not only was he the author of a study on funerary papyri of the 21st Dynasty, but he also compiled and recorded all the available information on the coffin sets found in the tomb, providing for the first updated list of coffins and their current locations in Egypt and beyond.”
Created by Onceinawhile (talk). Self-nominated at 01:19, 17 April 2022 (UTC).
