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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Cairo The pyramid, made of mud bricks, has collapsed, but decorations and pottery fragments in the underlying chamber will help
archaeologists shed light on Egypt in the sixteenth century bc. The period preceeded the golden age of the Pharoahs epitomized by Tutankhamen of the eighteenth dynasty and by the Ramesses
kings of the nineteenth and twentieth dynasties. “It is very important that the pyramid has turned up,” says John Taylor of the British Museum's Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan.
“It will help us to clarify the chronology of the royals and understand how they were related.” This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution ACCESS OPTIONS Access
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