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The history of the museum began in 1894 when barracks on the site of the current museum where turned into exhibition rooms for archaeological finds from across Boeotia. In 1905 a new building was erected with funds from the Archaeological Society at Athens. The current building was built in 2007.
Archaeological excavations in and around Thebes have revealed cist graves dated to Mycenaean times containing weapons, ivory, and tablets written in Linear B.Its attested name forms and relevant terms on tablets found locally or elsewhere include 𐀳𐀣𐀂, te-qa-i, [n 1] understood to be read as *Tʰēgʷai̮s (Ancient Greek: Θήβαις, Thēbais, i.e. "at Thebes", Thebes in the dative ...
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By August 1856, Combs himself had sold "two of [the] mummies, and some of the papyri" to the St. Louis Museum. [99] Upon the closing of the St. Louis Museum in 1863, these artifacts were purchased by Col. John H. Wood and found their way to his museum in Chicago .
Photograph of the Karnak Temple complex taken in 1914, Cornell University Library. The history of the Karnak Temple complex is largely the history of Thebes.The city does not appear to have been of any significance before the Eleventh Dynasty, and any temple building here would have been relatively small and unimportant, with any shrines being dedicated to the early god of Thebes, Montu. [1]
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Auguste Mariette's Egyptian Antiquities Service started to explore the valley, first with Eugène Lefébure in 1883, [12] then Jules Baillet and Georges Bénédite in early 1888, and finally Victor Loret in 1898 to 1899. Loret added a further 16 tombs to the list, and explored several tombs that had already been discovered. [13]
Papadimitrou resumed the publication of the Archaeological Bulletin, the service's journal, which had lapsed in 1938, [57] and commenced works to improve the tourist infrastructure at Delphi, including the controversial construction of a new hotel at the site. [58] Stele in memory of Papadimitriou at the Archaeological Museum of Bruaron