Photo from JXgypt I^xploration Fund 



THK large: bake:d pottery vessel of the fourth and Fifth dynasty shown in 



POSITION BEFORE IT IS REMOVED FROM THE BODY WHICH LIES BENEATH 



The small pot of rough pottery was found with every burial, but no other objects except a 



few beads 



temple of Hatshepsut was in view. The 

 recovery of Deir-el-Bahari is clue to the 

 labors of the Egypt Exploration Fund 

 and the genius of Edouard Naville. Due 

 regard must be had also for the pioneer 

 work of Mariette, 1858, 1862, and 1866, 

 who got as far as the upper platform of 

 Hatshepsut's temple. 



In 1893 the Egypt Exploration Fund 

 took up its work at Deir-el-Bahari. Here 

 Mariette had carried out on a large scale 

 his custom of heaping his rubbish close 



to the place from which it came. In this 

 way unconsciously was buried deeper, 

 under weighty rubbish heaps, a hall deco- 

 rated with gigantic sculpture. Still less 

 did he suspect that here, too, was the 

 royal chapel of Thothmes (Tahutmes) I 

 and the inner court, containing the im- 

 mense white altar, the finest ever found 

 in Egypt. The work, commenced in 1893, 

 required 14 years to complete. M. Na- 

 ville has left nothing for future students 

 to do. 



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