Lahun. A town in Egypt 1800 BC, and the history of its landscape

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-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