Recycling for Death: Coffin Reuse in Ancient Egypt and the Theban Royal Caches

by Kathlyn M. Cooney

A meticulous study of the social, economic, and religious significance of coffin reuse and development during the Ramesside and early Third Intermediate periods, illustrated with over 900 images

Funerary datasets are the chief source of social history in Egyptology, and the numerous tombs, coffins, Books of the Dead, and mummies of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Dynasties have not been fully utilized as social documents, mostly because...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1649031289
• ISBN13: 9781649031280
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Length: 476 Pages