Snape (Egyptian archeology, U. of Liverpool) offers general readers primary evidence and secondary discussion of a range of material relating to how ancient Egyptians saw tombs, and the diverse ways tombs represented aspects of life and afterlife for them. In a selection rather than comprehensive chronology, he discusses nameless lives at Tarkhan and Saqqara, the tombs of Qar and Idu, Osiris Lord of Abydos, strangers and brothers in the Middle Kingdom of Middle Egypt, Rekhmire and the tomb of the well-known soldier, and Samut and the Ramesside private tomb. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)