Afterlife Workforce of Yuya and Thuya

Location: Egyptian Museum

Photograph by: Diaa Khalil

These funerary figurines from the tomb of Yuya and Thuya were meant to substitute for the deceased when hard labor was to be done. On the bottom left are miniature tools which they were supposed to use.

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