“Around each royal pyramid complex, there grew up a large number of other buildings - the mastaba tombs belonging to the king's family and courtiers, and the dwellings of the necropolis officials and workmen. All the subsidiary tombs had to be provisioned and the priests who attended to them had to be paid, an expense borne by the king as a mark of esteem for his favoured courtiers and officials.”
David describes the work of the Kahun Project at Manchester Museum which, since 1980, has been ‘reworking' the major collection of objects excavated by Flinders Petrie, 'Father of British Égyptology', at Kahun, a pyramid workmen's town, uniquely important because no such site had been discovered or excavated before. A detective story, bringing to the general reader a picture of a special community that lived in Egypt and built one of the great pyramids, some 4,000 years ago.
London et al: Routledge and Keegan Paul, 1986. First edition (stated). Hardcover. Octavo. 269 pages. Dust jacket in very good condition with only edge wear. Boards clean with only bumping to corners. Binding tight and square. Pages clear. Wonderful copy.
