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© Stéphane Compoint
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At the Tabbet al-Guesh site, the excavations are in full swing and the workers now number a hundred, making the site look like a giant anthill. The Sait Egyptian necropolis seems to slowly rise up from the sands. Crude brick structures are being exposed – they are likely the tombs of high-ranking dignitaries of the Lower Period (750-732 BCE). For reasons both religious and practical, the Sait dignitaries reinconditiond their predecessors’ necropoli. As they continue to peel back the layers of time, strata by strata, the team hopes to uncover older tombs, dating to the end of the Old Kingdom (2300 BCE). The rumble from the dig is carried out of the site by wagon before being dumped in the desert, far from any archeological site.
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