ABSTRACT
The mutilated and battered mummies of the Kings described in previous chapters show clearly enough that the robbers were no respecters of persons, and it happens that antiquity has handed down to us a number of documents (papyri and ostraca) dealing with the personnel and administration of the Theban necropolis which throw much light upon tomb-robbing, and it will perhaps be instructive to glance rapidly through some of them in the light of modern discoveries.
