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August 12

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  1. 1882 CEEgyptian · born

    The English Egyptologist T. Eric Peet, known for his studies of Egyptian mathematical texts and the tomb-robbery papyri, was born in 1882.

  2. 1913 CEBuddhist · born

    Ajahn Maha Bua, a revered master of the Thai Forest Tradition and a disciple of Ajahn Mun, was born in Udon Thani province, Thailand.

  3. 1938 CEEgyptian · died

    The German Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt, whose Amarna excavations uncovered the painted bust of Nefertiti, died in 1938.

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