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4 unusual facts about Anthony Charles Harris


Anthony Charles Harris

The Papyrus Harris 500, a literary papyrus containing two tales and poetry

An amateur, he had a good understanding of hieroglyphs as was acknowledged by Heinrich Karl Brugsch.

Tony Harris

Anthony Charles Harris (1790–1869), collector of ancient Egyptian papyri

Tyti

Now, however, new scholarly research printed in the 2010 issue of JEA clearly establishes that Queen Tyti was in fact Ramesses III's wife based on certain copies of parts of the tomb robbery papyri (or Papyrus BM EA 10052)—made by Anthony Harris—which discloses confessions made by Egyptian tomb robbers who broke into Tyti's tomb and emptied it of its jewellery.



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