Sheikh el-Balad: Illumined Priest of Ancient Egypt Discovered at Saqqara
MEET SHEIKH EL-BALAD Something STRANGE happened in 1870 at the burial grounds in the Old Kingdom site of Saqqara Egypt… While the workers commissioned by the famous Egyptologist and French scholar, Francois Auguste Ferdinand Mariette were excavating a Mastaba, they revealed this RARE life-like masterpiece. They decided to give this statue the Arabic title of […]
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