ABSTRACT
Lahun (or al-Lahun) is the Arabic name for a modern town on the banks of the Bahr Yussef, a now canalised waterway leading from the Nile Valley west into the Fayum depression, about 100 km south of modern Cairo. Lahun is known in Egyptian archaeology for a series of ancient sites along the desert edge, a little to the north of the modern town. The most imposing of these, though much denuded, is the pyramid complex constructed as the burial place and cult centre of King Senusret II (who reigned about 1900 BC). Beside the Valley Temple of this religious complex lie the remains of the largest surviving Middle Bronze Age town in Egypt (Kemp 1989: 149–57).
