Abydos: fractured skulls shed light on human sacrifice in Egypt's First Dynasty
A Purdue University anthropologist has reopened a century-old case by re-examining 46 skulls from Abydos held at Cambridge. On eighteen of …
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A Purdue University anthropologist has reopened a century-old case by re-examining 46 skulls from Abydos held at Cambridge. On eighteen of …
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