The army of Montuhotep II. This is a remarkable collection of bodies broken at Deir El-bahri, on the west shore of the Nile at Thebes, beside the mortuary complex of the ruler. Almost 60 Egyptian soldiers were inhume there in ritual burial. Full of them had died of battle lesions taken during the siege of the city of Hierakonpolis in a battle to unify the body politic, and they wore covers marked with the cartouche and stamps of Montuhotep II, identifying them as the pharaohs comrades-in-arms who were sure to share payoffs with him in heaven. The tomb was hooked during the Second Intermediate Period (1640-1550 B.C.E.) but then reported by a landslide, which sealed it in effect.
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