References & Sources

Hey, Pharaoh, make way for the mayor

Remains of a 3,700-year-old mayor’s mansion reveal the surprising power of government officials in ancient Egypt.

References:

1999. First-ever ancient Egyptian mayor’s house is identified at Abydos in Egypt. University of Pennsylvania Museum News Release. Summer.

Sources:

Josef Wegner
University of Pennsylvania
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
33rd and Spruce Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19104

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 9, August 28, 1999, p. 139. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.