Ancient Egyptian Burial Practices at the British Museum
A review of my visit to the Ancient Egyptian gallery at the British Museum, London, England.
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
The ancient Greeks were proud of their accomplishments, including some of the remarkable constructions that took place in the eastern Mediterranean.
The Administration of Egypt in the Old Kingdom The Highest Titles and their Holders
The purpose of this book is to study a group of the highest civil administrative titles of the Old Kingdom from the standpoint of the memphite region.
Tomb and social status: The textual evidence
In archaeological theoretical literature it has been stressed that tombs might rather show the status of the living persons who organized the burial than the status of the buried person. This is of course an important argument but in Ancient Egypt we have the anthropologically quite exceptional situation that the tomb-owner already began the construction of his tomb and the organisation of his burial equipment when he was still alive.