Life and Death in Ancient Egypt: Scenes from Private Tombs in New Kingdom Thebes

Sigrid Hodel-Hoenes leads readers on an expedition to the cemetery used by the officials of New Kingdom Egypt on the eastern flanks of the western mountains, examining the contents of 11 tombs belonging to civil servants, the private people of the city. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, the book provides details of the location, layout, structure and decoration of the tombs. Hodel-Hoenes addresses such subjects as the two-dimensional art of the Kingdom of New Thebes, the contents of the tombs, the pigments used in the artists' paints and the symbolism of the colours and the scenes depicted in the tomb paintings and reliefs.

Translated from German by David Warburton