The kings of the restored Theban empire were
all interred at Thebes. There are, in fact, no known royal sepulchres
between the Fayyum and Abydos. The great kings were mostly buried in
the neighbourhood of Memphis, Abydos, and Thebes. The sepulchres of the
"Middle Empire"--the XIth to XIIIth Dynasties--in the neighbourhood
of the Fayyum may fairly be grouped with those of the same period at
Dashur, which belongs to the necropolis of Memphis, since it is only a
mile or two south of Sakkara.
It is chiefly with regard to the sepulchres of the kings that the most
momentous discoveries of recent years have been made at Thebes, and at
Sakkara, Abusir, Dashur, and Lisht, as at Abydos. For this reason we
deal in succession with the finds in the necropoles of Abydos, Memphis,
and Thebes respectively. And with the sepulchres of the "Old Kingdom,"
in the Memphite necropolis proper, we have naturally grouped those of
the "Middle Kingdom" at Dashur, Lisht, Illahun, and Hawara.
Some of these modern discoveries have been commented on and illustrated
by Prof. Maspero in his great history. But the discoveries that have
been made since this publication have been very important,--those at
Abusir, indeed, of first-rate importance, though not so momentous as
those of the tombs of the Ist and IId Dynasties at Abydos, already
described.
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