Abusir: The Necropolis of the Sons of the Sun
Miroslav Verner
Abstract
At the center of the world-famous pyramid field of the Memphite necropolis lies a group of pyramids, temples, and tombs named after the nearby village of Abusir. Long overshadowed by the more familiar pyramids at Giza and Saqqara, this area has nonetheless been the site, for the last fifty years, of an extensive operation to discover its past. This thoroughly updated in-depth book documents the uncovering by a dedicated team of Czech archaeologists of a hitherto neglected wealth of ancient remains dating from the Old Kingdom to the Late Period. This is Abusir, realm of Osiris, God of the dead, ... More
Keywords: temples, necropolis, pyramids, tombs, Abusir, ancient remains, Osiris, archaeology
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 | Print ISBN-13: 9789774167904 |
| Published to Cairo Scholarship Online: January 2018 | DOI:10.5743/cairo/9789774167904.001.0001 |
