Lahun. A town in Egypt 1800 BC, and the history of its landscape
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Table of contents :
-Contents
-Introduction
-Chapter One Cemeteries of the Early Dynastic
Period (c.3000-2600 BC) to late Old Kingdom
(c.2300-2000 BC)
-Chapter Two Middle Kingdom Lahun as
religious landscape: the place of Cult and Burial
of a King
-Chapter Toree Lahun as urban landscape: the
late Middle Kingdom town
-Chapter Four Living in the late Middle Kingdom
town: palatial houses
-Chapter Five Living in the late Middle Kingdom
town: non-palatial houses, large and small
-Chapter Six Finds and themes from across the
town
-Chapter Seven New Kingdom Lahun: burials in
town cellars and old tombs, and non-funerary
finds
-Chapter Eight Lahun in the first millennium BC:
the cemeteries of a flourishing region
-Chapter Nine Lahun in the first millennium AD:
Roman Period and early Christian and Muslim
Egypt
-Postscript: recent work on Lahun
-Principal reference works
-Chronology
-Museums with material from Lahun
