The caption for this image reads: The Cutting and Carrying of the Harvest. Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Dumichen, Resultate, vol. i, pl x. The book was written by Gaston Maspero, a French Egyptologist and director general of excavations and antiquities for the Egyptian government. Accompanying the text are many drawings by the French artist Henri Faucher-Gudin, such as this one of ancient Egyptians cutting and carrying the harvest. Many of these drawings are found in ancient Egyptian tombs.

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