Burial customs

Too often 'ancient Egypt' is treated in general books as a monolithic block, nowhere more so than in coverage of funerary archaeology. There is no such phenomenon as 'the ancient Egyptian burial' as a general type: burial customs evolved continuously throughout Egyptian history.
Studying the developments allows us to separate the history of these customs into broad periods:

Predynastic Egypt	Early Dynastic	Old Kingdom	End of Old Kingdom-Early Twelfth Dynasty	End of Twelfth Dynasty-Second Intermediate Period
Early New Kingdom (18th Dynasty)	Late New Kingdom (19th and 20th Dynasty)	Third Intermediate Period	Late Period	Ptolemaic Period
	Roman Period	Coptic Egypt	Islamic Egypt

braces | cartonnages | coffins | canopic jars | canopic boxes | funerary literature | heart scarabs | magical wands | mummification | mummy masks | shabtis | wooden models

tombs in Ancient Egypt