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A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology
features. He used the meridional course of the Nile Valley to depict
Graham Hancock • Fingerprints of the Gods
Kings or chiefs?
Mary Beard • SPQR
what the Egyptians called a “fortified oval”—an elongated oval carved standing upright, with a series of small protrusions all along its perimeter. This was meant to depict a fortified city, complete with defensive towers (hence the protrusions). Each fortified oval was placed on, or rather replaced, the lower body of a bound prisoner, portrayed wi
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