The secrets of tomb 10a
Subtitle: Egypt 2000 BC
Publisher: MFA Publications
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston, Mass.
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780878467471
Description: The Middle Kingdom was a time of unprecedented splendor, as regional potentates were lavished with rewards and buried in a style befitting royalty. Tomb 10A was prepared for one such potentate, and its treasures survived World War I, a ship's fires, and nearly a century of basement storage.
Table of contents: title: The Middle Kingdom. Middle Kingdom history, politics, and social organization; title: Funerary beliefs and practices in the Middle Kingdom; title: Art of the Middle Kingdom; title: Tomb 10A at Deir el-Bersha; title: Discovering Deir el-Bersha; title: The coffins and canopic chests of Tomb 10A; title: The Djehutynakhts' burial goods; title: The Djehutynakhts' models.