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The hidden tombs of Memphis : new discoveries from the time of Tutankhamun and Ramesses the Great / Geoffrey T. Martin.

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"For Geoffrey Martin and his colleagues, the internationally acclaimed discovery of the tomb of Maya, Tutankhamun's treasurer, was the culmination of a painstaking ten-year search at Saqqara, the burial ground of Memphis, ancient capital of Egypt. Maya had been one of the most important me...

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Main Author: Martin, Geoffrey Thorndike (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, [1991]
Series:New aspects of antiquity.
Subjects:
Ṣaqqārah (Egypt) > Antiquities.
Tombs > Egypt > Ṣaqqārah.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Egypt > Ṣaqqārah.
Egypt > Antiquities.
Egypt > Social life and customs > To 332 B.C.
Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Manners and customs.
Tombs.
Egypt.
Egypt > SĐaqqarah.
Table of Contents:
  • The expedition is formed
  • Memphis and its necropolis; Saqqara
  • The tomb of Horemheb, regent of Tutankhamun
  • The tomb of Tia and Tia: a royal monument of the Ramesside period
  • Minor tombs in the Memphite necropolis
  • Searching for the tomb of Maya
  • Court, government, and daily life in the New Kingdom
  • The lost tombs of Memphis.

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