Corona Early Dynastic Tombs

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Abstract
Location of the tombs covered by modern structures (right), in contrast with the same area in 1968 before modern expansion (right). Location based on Hans Bonnet, Ein frühgeschichtliches Gräberfeld bei Abusir (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1928), pl. 1 and Dirk Blaschta, “The Early Dynastic Necropolis at South Abusir,” in Abusir: Secrets of the Desert and the Pyramids, ed. Hana Benešovska and Petra Vlckova (Prague: National Museum, 2006), 61–79.

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Title
Early Dynastic Elite Burials
Source
Title
1968 Corona satellite imagery, courtesy Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, University of Arkansas/U.S. Geological Survey. Modern satellite imagery, copyright 2017 DigitalGlobe, Inc., courtesy of Google Earth.
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Title
Sullivan, Elaine A. Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis at Saqqara, Redwood City: Stanford University Press 2020, http://doi.org/10.21627/2020cts
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/wg750tw2858

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