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Cleopatra's Needle, Victoria Embankment, London

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Paul Boughton: London, United Kingdom; I have a Diploma in Egyptology from Birkbeck College (University of London) and have published three articles in the UK-based Ancient Egypt magazine. They are: The Lost Sarcophagus (December/January 2009); The Titanic Shabti (August/September 2008); Menkaure’s anthropoid coffin: a case of mistaken identity? (August/September 2006).

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