The partial picture that currently exists will become, over time, a somewhat less partial one.

The questions that remain open will yield, one by one, to the sustained attention of an international community of scholars applying the best available tools to the evidence that the ancient world left behind.

The ox-carts with women and children have been on the walls of Medinet Habu for three thousand years.

They will be there for three thousand more.

We are still learning to read what they carry.
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