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academic subject in its own right in the Indian universities. An austerely religious man, he lived, in the true sense, the ideals of an ancient Indian teacher—a guru who lives only for his subject and his students. Some of his ideas were disputed in later years, especially his tendency to see “western Asia” and “Aryans” in the proto-historic record. However, he dealt with even those who criticized him academically, and they never forgot to touch his feet and seek his blessings. A list of his publications may be found in the Indian journal Man and Environment (1989 14, no. 2).
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References
For references, see Encyclopedia of Archaeology: The Great Archaeologists, Vol. 2. Ed. Tim Murray (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1999), pp. 588–589.
Saqqara is one section of the great necropolis of Memphis, the capital of the Old Kingdom in Egypt. Most of the kings of the First and Second Dynasties were buried there. Though it is best known for the Step Pyramid built by Imhotep for King Djoser of the Third Dynasty, the site is also famous for mastaba tombs (low, rectangular, flat-roofed tombs with a shaft to the burial chamber), the Serapeum, and the numerous private tombs that date between the Old Kingdom and Greco-Roman times. Saqqara has been under virtually continuous excavation since the nineteenth century and is particularly associated with French archaeology in Egypt, especially the work of auguste mariette, who founded the Egyptian Antiquities Service and excavated the Serapeum. The Serapeum was a funeral complex where the mummified sacred Apis bulls were entombed. It was a place of pilgrimage.
Step pyramid at Saqqara
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French Archaeology in Egypt and the Middle East; Egypt: Predynastic
References
Lauer, J.P. 1976. Saqqara: The Royal Cemetery of Memphis: Excavations and Discoveries since 1850. London: Thames and Hudson.
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A Slovenian archaeologist, epigrapher, and specialist in ancient history, Jaroslav Šašel studied at Ljubljana University, received his Ph.D. in 1969, and specialized at Graz University, the French School in Athens, and the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton in the United States. Between 1951 and 1961, Šašel was an assistant in the Department of Archaeology, University of Ljubljana, and from 1961 to 1988, he was a research fellow at the Institute of Archaeology of the Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a member of many academies and learned societies: for example, a member of the deutsches archäologisches institut (German Archaeological Institute), visiting member of
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