Aidan DODSON, Salima IKRAM: The Tomb in Ancient Egypt, London: Thames and Hudson, 2008, 368 pp. ISBN: 978-0-500-05139-9

Resumo

This book follows quite naturally the remarkable work begun by this same team of authors in The Mummy in Ancient Egypt: Equipping the Dead for Eternity, published in 1998 under the auspices of the American University in Cairo Press. In this previous book the authors begun a systematic and comprehensive approach to the study of the Egyptian archaeological contexts related to the afterlife. It seems now perfectly clear that these two books, although presented as independent works, are intimately connected in such a way that their contents are perfectly complementary. Given the fact that the book dedicated to the study of the mummy already included an approach to the funerary equipment related to it, such as sarcophagi, coffins, masks and amulets,
the present volume is entirely dedicated to the characterization of the archaeological features of the Egyptian tomb, that is to say, to the wider archaeological context where the mummies were supposed to be buried.