Past Perfect: Opening the Tomb of the Sacred Bull

In the 1850s, the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette Made a Surprising Discovery in the Necropolis at Saqqara

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Count Minandre Zizania was the Belgian consul in Egypt.

Antoine Barthélemy Clot was an eminent physician.

Nectanebo refers to either Nectanebo I (380–362 B.C.) or Nectanebo II (362–343 B.C.), two Egyptian pharaohs of the 30th Dynasty.