Sir Edward Neville was a British Egyptologist who excavated the Osirion at Abydos for the Egypt Exploration Fund in 1913. He argued that its massive construction and lack of ornament showed great antiquity and described it as one of Egypt's oldest buildings. That was Neville's view, not the archaeological consensus: the Osireion is generally dated to the reign of Seti I in the 13th century BCE. The exact 25-foot height difference and the claim that Seti's temple was reshaped solely to avoid the buried Osirion are unsupported.
Neville called the Osirion ancient; archaeology dates it to Seti I
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Key facts
- Sir Edward Neville was a British Egyptologist, not Swiss. He excavated the Osirion at Abydos in 1913 for the Egypt Exploration Fund.
- Neville argued that its massive materials and lack of ornament indicated great antiquity, but this was his interpretation, not archaeological consensus.
- The Osireion is generally attributed to the reign of Seti I in the 13th century BCE, not to Khafre's era or the First Dynasty.
- The exact 25-foot height difference and the claim that Seti I's temple was reshaped solely to avoid the Osirion are unsupported.
- The cited evidence does not support attribution to Scorpion, Narmer, or Menes or a local Egyptian belief in those dates.
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