José Manuel Galán, Spanish Egyptologist in Luxor: «We Are Looking for Two Pyramids to Discover»

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“Ah, so you’ve already met Tutu.” José Manuel Galán came out to greet us at Dra Abu el-Naga with a smile, shaking the dirt from his hands as he shook ours. The archaeologists from the Djehuty Project were hard at work that morning, and the first to come to meet us, wagging her tail happily, was the Egyptologist’s faithful dog, who was born on that very west bank of Luxor where the Spanish mission is excavating. “Dogs are frowned upon and treated…