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Ancient Egypt in Context: Interview with Professor David Wengrow
Tides of History
The Death of a King in Egypt
The death of a king is not a political event in the way that we understand that, or at least politics that's intertwined with the action of daily life. The earliest royal cemeteries are surrounded by all these little mud brick compartments, hundreds, even thousands of them. And each one of those compartments was constructed along with the tomb as part of a single architectural funeraly complex. These don't seem to have been war captives or outsiders or victims. Quite to the contrary they actually seem to have were either family membersof the king, part of the royal family and so on.
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