The royal tombs of ancient Egypt include some of the most stupendous
monuments of all time, containing some of the greatest treasures to
survive from the ancient world. This book is a history of the burial
places of the rulers of Egypt from the very dawn of history down to the
country's absorption into the Roman Empire, three millennia later.
During this time, the tombs ranged from mudbrick-lined pits in the
desert, through pyramid-topped labyrinths to superbly decorated
galleries penetrating deep into the rock of the Valley of the Kings. The
first book to embrace in detail the entire range of royal tombs, the
present volume covers the full extent of royal funerary monuments, which
comprised not only the actual burial place, but also the place where the
worlds of the living and the dead came together in the temples built to
provide for the dead pharaoh's soul.