The rock-cut tomb was the most ubiquitous of Egyptian funerary monuments. This book surveys many of these varieties and traces their development. The New Kingdom royal tombs at Thebes and Amarna are described and capters are devoted to the groups of private tombs that date from the Old Kingdom onwards; the distinction is drawn between the tomb-chapels, decorated with the so-called 'scenes of daily life', and the associated burial chamters, in some casese cut a considerable distance away. The changes in decorative themes are explored, as are those in architecture and location. The book concludes with a brief look at the contruction of rock tombs, particularly in the context of workmen's village of Deir el-Medina, and their uncertain future.
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Aidan Dodson became interested in Egyptian archaeology at an early age and studied the subject at Collingwood College, Durham, Liverpool University and Christ's College, Cambridge. He received his BA in 1985 and an MPhil in 1986, spending a period working on the Egyptian collections in the University of Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum and Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
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Aidan Dodson was born in 1962 in London and brought up in Slough, Berkshire. He studied Egyptology at Durham, Liverpool and Cambridge Universities, obtaining his BA in 1985, his MPhil in 1986 and his PhD in 1995; he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003. He has taught in the Department of Archaeology & Anthropology at Bristol University, where he is now a Senior Research Fellw, since 1996 and has given public lectures in the UK, the USA, Canada, Egypt, Denmark, Italy and Spain. He met his wife while teaching her Egyptology at an adult education class; they live in Bristol.
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This review is from: Egyptian Rock-cut Tombs (Shire Egyptology) (Paperback)
Many people know about the rock tombs of the Valley of the Kings, yet little know that these tombs were the end product of a development which had been ongoing since at least the Old Kingdom. There are tombs where the dead were buried and tomb-chapels, sometimes placed far apart. This book particularly describes the relationship between Deir el-Medina (the workmen's village) and the New Kingdom rock tombs. It is a refreshing book, recommended for all interested scholars.
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