Many details, however, which are absent from tombs of the earlier dynasties are here given, while others which are invariably met with in the neighbourhood of the pyramids are lacking.
Twenty centuries work many changes in the usages of daily life, even in conservative Egypt.

We look almost in vain for herds of gazelles upon the walls of the Theban tombs, for the reason that these animals, in Ramesside times, had ceased to be bred in a state of domestication.

The horse, on the other hand, had been imported into the valley of the Nile, and is depicted pawing the ground where formerly the gazelle was seen cropping the pasturage.

The trades are also more numerous and complicated; the workmen's tools are more elaborate; the actions of the deceased are more varied and personal.

In former times, when first the rules of tomb decoration were formulated, the notion of future retribution either did not exist, or was but dimly conceived.