The team travelled to the site, south of Cairo, in mid-October, led by Zoltán Horváth, an Egypitologist from the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Egyptian archaeologist Ashraf Zein Elabidin El-Senussi.
The Museum of Fine Arts' participation in the four-year El-Lahun Survey Project marks the first time the museum has become involved in a dig in Egypt.
The site of the workers village, located near the pyramid, was excavated by the British archaeologist W. M. F. Petrie in 1888-90 and again in 1914. Petrie found many household objects and tools at the dig, as well as papyri, made up of about a thousand fragments, covering legal and medical matters.
The work of a Canadian team at the dig was suspended in 2002, after the death of the team's chief archaeologist. But the documentation of the team's work ended up in the Museum of Fine Arts' Egyptian collection.
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Source: Múlt-kor
