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In Gold and Lapis Lazuli

Robert Cioffi: How They Built the Pyramids, 8 May 2025

The Red Sea Scrolls: How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids 
by Pierre Tallet and Mark Lehner.
Thames and Hudson, 319 pp., £30, January 2023, 978 0 500 05211 2
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... of an ancient jetty. But on 12 March 2013, a team of French and Egyptian archaeologists led by Pierre Tallet discovered six fragments of papyrus in a depression near the limestone cliffs five kilometres from the shore. Hundreds of thousands of texts written on papyrus have been discovered in Egypt – ritual and religious instructions for the ...

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