"The paintings from Nebamun's tomb chapel are among the greatest and most famous of the British Museum's treasures. Yet much about them remains mysterious, and this book is concerned with the detective work undertaken to help us to understand and see them properly before they are displayed in a new permanent gallery in 2008. For this the paintings are being conserved and remounted in the Museum's specialist laboratories, a process that is revealing radical new information about painting techniques in ancient Egypt. This, together with archival work, is helping us to solve the problem of the tomb-chapel's location at Thebes, last seen in the 1820s when the paintings were removed."--Museum website

• Preface
• A modern view of ancient paintings. Introduction
• Discovery
• The paintings in the British Museum
• In a tomb-chapel. Theban tomb-chapel
• Where and when at Thebes?
• Nebamun at Thebes
• Ancient techniques and modern analysis
• The paintings. Introduction
• Funerary offerings
• The banquet
• Viewing the produce of the estates
• Agricultual scenes
• Offering bringers
• Fishing and fowling in the marshes
• The garden of the west
• Revisiting the tomb-chapel