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The present research was based on a biocultural analysis of the funerary customs and human remains from the late Old Kingdom (5th-6th Dynasties; 2494-2181 BC) and Ptolemaic Period (332-30 BC) cemeteries at Saqqara-West, Egypt. The study was built on a detailed analysis of archae…

The Memphite Sarapieion, the sacred precinct in the royal necropolis of Saqqara that was dedicated to the burial and mortuary cult of the Apis bull from at least as early as the Dynasty 18 reign of Amenhotep III (circa 1390-1353 B.C.E.), was significantly altered, probably durin…