Walter Bryan Emery

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excavations in Memphis

  • Memphis, Egypt: colossal statue of Ramses II
    In Memphis: Archaeology of Memphis

    In the 1930s Walter Bryan Emery began the excavations that uncovered the great 1st-dynasty tombs. His work in the archaic cemetery disclosed another huge labyrinth, resembling that of the Serapeum, the precise function of which is as yet undetermined. Beginning in the 1980s, the Egypt Exploration Society sponsored…

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