Solarion
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Find myself reading up on Egyptian history these days. Came across this and want to share it.
Giza 3D: Digital archaeology and scholarly access to the Giza Pyramids: The Giza Project at Harvard University
Giza 3D: Digital archaeology and scholarly access to the Giza Pyramids: The Giza Project at Harvard University
From a modern archaeological standpoint, it is critical to bear in mind that such cemeteries as the Giza Necropolis functioned not as empty, quiet, abandoned burial places, but as thriving administrative centers that played important roles in the lives of the Egyptians, not just in their deaths. This fact, combined with the Egyptian propensity to adorn their funerary monuments with identifying inscriptions and scenes, either in paint or in carved relief (or both), converts the Necropolis into a primary source for the study of almost any aspect of ancient Egyptian civilization