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Hidden Tombs Of Memphis The Hidden Tombs of Memphis is the grandiose story of the internationally acclaimed discovery of the tomb of Maya, the culmination of a painstaking ten year search at Saqqara, the burial ground of Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt. Maya had been Tutankhamun’s treasurer and one of the most powerful men during the boy-king’s short reign. Exploration of his tomb, and those of other important officials in the necropolis, has opened an important new chapter in the understanding of Egyptian society dating back more than 3,000 years. This book is Professor Martin’s first-hand account of his discoveries. Since 1975, his team has uncovered a series of spectacular funerary monuments, not just of Maya but also of Horemheb – Tutankhamun’s Commander-in-Chief, and later himself pharaoh – Ramesses the Great’s sister, Princess Tia, and other courtiers of New Kingdom Egypt. The beautiful wall reliefs and paintings in the tombs discussed in this book shed new light on the knowledge of New Kingdom art, up until recently largely dominated by the treasures of ancient Thebes. Many of the isolated masterpieces in museums around the world can now be linked back to Saqqara monuments, from which they originally tomb, tombs, saqqara, pyramid, horemheb, cult, new, kingdom, ancient, tia, one, martin, funerary, desert, west, unas, site, ramesses, necropolis, mortuary, monuments, memphis, leading, great, been, wall, royal, room, religious, part, open, old, large, egypt