Egypt's 1st Dynasty saw the emergence of a unified land stretching from the Delta to the first cataract at Aswan, a distance of over one thousand kilometers along the Nile Valley.
Supported by funds from private sources he started operations at Abydos in 1895, working westwards until he reached a low spur of the desert known as Umm el-Ka'ab 'Mother of Pots' after the innumerable potsherd covering the surface.
But the Horus Den, the fifth king of Egypt's 1st Dynasty,, was also prominent upon the jar-sealings, which mention too a 'seal-bearer of the King of Lower Egypt' with a name compounded with that of the goddess Neith.
With no government funding, he was obliged to work in a restricted area, and devoted much of his attention to the tombs at Thebes, where he excavated in 1824 and 1827-8.
The Fund was one of the first organizations to apply for excavation permits in Egypt; its aims of undertaking scientific excavation and publishing its results, and of fostering interest in Egyptology amongst its largely lay membership still continue today(it is now known as the EgyptExploration Society).
It was her wish that William Flinders Petrie, who had excavated for the Fund, should be appointed to this post, and it was his methodology of scientific excavation in Egypt which would pioneer a whole new approach to archacology.
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