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Word: dahshur (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1927-1927
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...until last March was the sarcophagus opened. Despite its elaborate concealment, the magnificent array around it and the obvious fact that thieves had never penetrated to it, the sarcophagus was empty. Cheops, having had one experience with thieves -at Dahshur, had evidently carried his ruse of concealment one step beyond extreme caution and hidden his mother's mummy still elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diggers | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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