The Tombs of Ptahemwia and Sethnakht at Saqqara. Archéologie Pier Lluigi Nervi

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The Tombs of Ptahemwia and Sethnakht at Saqqara. Archéologie Pier Lluigi NerviThe two tombs dealt with in this book were discovered in 2007 and 2010 by the Leiden Expedition in the New Kingdom necropolis of Saqqara. Both date to the transition period between the reign of the heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten and the return to orthodoxy under his successor Tutankhamun. They are valuable additions to the growing corpus of funerary architecture from the Memphite cemeteries, yet they are quite different. Ptahemwia was a royal butler,