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Around 1800 BC in the reign of the great king Amenemhat III, a man lived at Thebes whose position in the state bureaucracy was high enough for him to build a tomb on the west bank of the Nile-probably the sort of man who could also dedicate a small but tasteful statue of himself in the local temple. Read the first page
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