Also includes an essay by Helen Dorey on the celebrations held at the Museum to welcome the arrival of Seti I in 1825.īy John H Taylor, with an appendix by Helen Dorey. At the heart of the book is the first complete modern published translation of the entire text of the hieroglyphs on the coffin, which will be fully illustrated. Kings, 2,500 years of tomb development in Egypt had already occurred. One of the world's leading Egyptologists, John Taylor, outlines the life of Seti I, the background to the creation of the sarcophagus, the excitement surrounding its discovery and the fascinating story of its journey to London and Sir John Soane's Museum. When pharaohs of the early 18th dynasty began planning their tombs in the Valley of the. Discovered in 1817 in the Seti tomb in the Valley of Kings, by maverick archaeologist Giovanni Belzoni, the sarcophagus now resides in Sir John Soane's Museum in London's Lincoln's Inn Fields. The sarcophagus of Pharaoh Seti I is regarded by many as the single greatest Egyptian item outside Egypt. Mina: (from 3201 to 3101 BC) King Mina, who is also known as Narmer, was the first Pharaonic king to rule Egypt after the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, and he established the first Pharaonic family in 3150 BC, and established the city of Memphis, as the capital of ancient Egypt. The first ever book about Sir John Soane's greatest treasure - one of the most important Egyptian antiquities anywhere in the world - the unique sarcophagus of the Pharaoh Seti I.

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