Egyptians went to great lengths to protect their dead from the
omnipresent threat of robbery by incorporating specially developed
architectural features in their tombs. However, the architecture of
tomb security has rarely been studied as a subject in its own right
and is usually treated as a secondary topic in publications of a
scholarly nature, which tend to regard its role as incidental to
the design of the tomb rather than perhaps being the driving force
behind it. This issue had been raised in the early Twentieth
Century by Reisner (1908: 11), who suggested that the rapid
evolution of Egyptian tomb substructures was as a result of the
desire for tomb security and more ostentatious tombs, rather than a
development spurred by religious or funerary practices. Taking this
premise much further, this book presents an in-depth analysis of
the architecture of tomb security in Egypt from the Predynastic
Period (c. 5000-4000 BC) until the early Fourth Dynasty (c. 2500
BC) by extrapolating data on the security features of published
tombs from the whole of Egypt and gathering it together for the
first time in one accessible database. Using the information
assembled it adds new information to the current body of knowledge
concerning the architecture of tomb security and explains many of
the underlying reasons behind their adoption. By thematically
analysing these features in order to draw conclusions it also
demonstrates that many aspects of the architecture of the Egyptian
tomb over this period, in both royal and private contexts-whilst
subject to changing tastes, needs and ideologies-had indeed
originated as the result of the need to protect the tomb or improve
its security.
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