A Short History of Tomb-RaidingTo secure a comfortable afterlife, ancient Egyptians built fortress like tombs and filled them with precious goods, a practice that generated staggering quantities of artifacts over the course of many millennia and also one that has drawn thieves and tomb raiders to Egypt since antiquity. Drawing on modern scholarship, reportage, and period sources, this book tracks the history of treasure seekers in Egypt and the social contexts in which they

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