The Two Brothers: Death and the Afterlife in Middle Kingdom Egypt by Rosalie David.
In 1907 a team led by the great Egyptologist Flinders Petrie discovered a small tomb hidden high in the cliffs above the Egyptian village of Rifeh. The undecorated rock-cut chamber contained the undisturbed burials of two men. Although modest in size, the tomb was remarkable both for the quality of its funeral equipment and for the enduring mystery of its occupants, Khnum-Nakht and Nakht-Ankh, who soon became known as the "Two Brothers".
In 1908, the mummies were unwrapped at The University of Manchester and examined in one of the first scientific studies of bodies from ancient Egypt. In recent years the remains of the "Two Brothers" have been re-examined using modern analytical techniques pioneered by the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology at The University of Manchester, and more of the secrets hidden within their ancient bodies have been revealed.
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