Egypt's first restorer, working on a thousand-year-old ruin

Prince Khaemwaset, a son of Ramesses II, sought out decaying Old Kingdom monuments and re-inscribed them with the names of their original builders, including the pyramid of Unas, already more than a thousand years old in his day. For this work he is sometimes called the earliest known "Egyptologist."

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