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A SHORT HISTORY OF TOMB-RAIDING - MARIA GOLIA G...

To secure a comfortable afterlife  ancient Egyptians built fortress-like tombs and filled them
with precious goods  a practice that generated staggering quantities of artefacts over the
course of many millennia  but one which has also 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 operated  revealing
striking continuities throughout time. Readers will recognize the foibles of todays politicians
and con artists  the perils of materialism  and the cycles of public compliance and dissent in
the face of injustice. In describing an age-old pursuit and its timeless motivations  A Short
History of Tomb-Raiding shows how much we have in common with our Bronze Age ancestors.

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