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thatlittleegyptologist:

This is very exciting, because not only do we have more mummies to study, we also have more coffins**. They look to me to be Late Period, based on the style, and design, but I could easily be wrong. 

What I want to know, is why they were in a well shaft? Shaft burials are more typical of earlier periods than these coffins look to be, so…was this always a well? Or is the well more recent? I’m also vaguely frustrated that no images thus far have shown the detail on the coffins properly, because I want to read the Hieroglyphs and the names on them. 

**sarcophagi are made of stone, and coffins are made from wood. These are wooden, so they’re coffins not sarcophagi. 

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  5. thatlittleegyptologist said: @ritterum I’m not entirely sure. People seem to have the idea that the colonialism of the 1800s is still the same practice now and we get shit for that. They read the older racist books because we are too small a field to put out new books without great cost. So they think we’re still that racist. And then there’s all the media with the Egyptologists being invaders in tombs and falling to curses. We’re well shit on from a great height. Anti intellectualism feeds heavily into it.
  6. ritterum said: is it just anti-intellectualism or anti-Egyptology in particular? I’m having a very hard time understanding where the hostility comes from other than willful ignorance and woo
  7. thatlittleegyptologist said: @ritterum hi and welcome to Egyptology on the internet! People are very very hostile and it really sucks. Seriously this is why we take breaks sometimes.
  8. ritterum said: the comments on the tweet (twitter.com/BBCWorl…) are all… I get that some of them are supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, but a lot of them are just hostile
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