In Photos: Ancient Egyptian Skeletons Unearthed

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Unearthing graves

excavating-cemetery

(Image credit: The Amarna Project)

But because so few cemeteries for lower-class Egyptians have been unearthed, it's difficult to say whether these hardscrabble conditions were unique to Amarna or prevalent throughout ancient Egypt.

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