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The discovery of the Tomb of the Priests of Amun (also called Bab el-Gasus, “Gate of the Priests”) ranks as one of the most significant events in the Egyptian archaeology.
Not only was it one of the largest tombs ever found in Egypt, but it also remained completely undisturbed since ancient times. Excavated by Georges Daressy and Eugène Grébaut in 1891, the tomb revealed 153 burials of the priests of Amun who lived in Thebes during the 21st Dynasty. Its vast galleries also yielded a substantial hoard of funerary equipment, comprising approximately 254 coffins among numerous other artefacts.
Despite the unique opportunity offered by this undisturbed find, it would be heavily dispersed throughout the world, being now kept in more than 30 museums in different countries. The Gate of the Priests Project was set up at the Centre for History of the University of Lisbon aiming at studying from a holistic and interdisciplinary perspective the material culture of the Third Intermediate Period. The Gate of the Priests series was created to publish the studies conducted on these extensive and poorly studied documentary collections.
Not only was it one of the largest tombs ever found in Egypt, but it also remained completely undisturbed since ancient times. Excavated by Georges Daressy and Eugène Grébaut in 1891, the tomb revealed 153 burials of the priests of Amun who lived in Thebes during the 21st Dynasty. Its vast galleries also yielded a substantial hoard of funerary equipment, comprising approximately 254 coffins among numerous other artefacts.
Despite the unique opportunity offered by this undisturbed find, it would be heavily dispersed throughout the world, being now kept in more than 30 museums in different countries. The Gate of the Priests Project was set up at the Centre for History of the University of Lisbon aiming at studying from a holistic and interdisciplinary perspective the material culture of the Third Intermediate Period. The Gate of the Priests series was created to publish the studies conducted on these extensive and poorly studied documentary collections.
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