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Three thousand, three hundred years ago, a man stood at the edge of a dock. He stood upon slabs of stone at the edge

of an artificial harbour. Behind him, a staircase rose to a flattened and elevated plateau,

on which great mounds of masonry now rose up. The man stood in the village of Abidos, in front of a temple that belonged

to the king, Seti I, men Ma'athra. At the front of Seti's temple, countless labourers had excavated

a great square harbour, with a canal connecting it to the Nile. This waterway was large enough for ships to traverse,

bringing supplies and building material for the temple itself. And the man was awaiting one of these

deliveries. The man was well-dressed in a long, diaphanous robe, made of the finest quality linen. His nose was round, a sort of

button shape, and he had prominent cheeks that accentuated his almond-shaped eyes. His hair

was a mass of tightly bound curls or ringlets that reached down to his shoulders. At his chin,

he wore a short beard, like a goatee that was cut

square at the tip. He was a well-groomed individual. In one hand, he clutched a scepter of an antique

design, a long handle that flared out into a sort of semicircle, with a tapering rectangle attached to the top.

The scepter was a mark of power, the Sechem emblem, and it identified the man as a high-ranking

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