More on Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1965612,00.html

A summary on the Sunday Times of all the different opinions about the representation of two men in a tomb at Saqqara, highlighted recently at an international conference at the University of Wales, Swansea: "Archeologists have been baffled by the two men’s relationship since the tomb was uncovered in 1964 in the necropolis of Saqqara at Memphis, on the west bank of the Nile. It is extremely rare to find two men of equal status buried together. While grave robbers had stripped the tomb of relics, the wall paintings revealed tantalising hints about its original occupants. The men are repeatedly depicted together, sometimes holding hands, sometimes with their arms around each other. In two instances they are shown with their noses touching — the most intimate embrace permitted in Egyptian art of the time — seen as a form of kissing. Their wives and children are relegated to the background".

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Also featured on The Independent's website 2nd January 2006
http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article336093.ece