The purpose of this book is therefore to take a new look at the actual site itself and its recorded remains with the aim of using only this evidence and, where necessary, associating it with analogous material from other Old and Middle Kingdom pyramid complexes, in order to arrive at a solution as to what once constituted the Hawara necropolis.

Eric P. Uphill

Part I Methodology used for the Reconstruction The Site: Archaeological Description and Excavators' Reports Part II Analysis of the Archaeological and Architectural Material, Hieroglyphic Textual References to Hawara Part III Twelfth Dynasty Pyramid Complexes Part IV The Accounts of Herodotus and Other Classical Writers: Suggestions and Discussion