The Walking Dead at Saqqara : Strategies of Social and Religious Interaction in Practice
Funerary rituals and the cult of the dead are classics of research in religious studies, especially for ancient Egypt. Still, we know relatively little about how people interacted in daily life at the city of Memphis and its Saqqara necropolis in the late second millennium BCE. By focussing on lived...
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De Gruyter
2022
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