Tomb of the Overseer of the Treasury Maya, Saqqara, by Kate Gingell

Editor’s Note:

The team resp0nsible for the excavation and restoration of the tomb have provided an excellent summary of both Maya and his tomb on the  Saqqara.nl website.   In the administration of Tutankhamen, Maya was a contemporary of the General Horemheb, who later became Pharaoh, and both were involved in stabilising Egypt following the Amarna heresy. Maya was the Overseer of the Treasury and Overseer of Works during the reign of Tutankhamen, and was closely involved with the revival of the worship of traditional deities, particularly Amun.   Maya was married to Meryt, with whom he had two children.  The tomb in Saqqara was found in 1986.  There is useful plan of it on the Saqqara.nl website at: http://www.saqqara.nl/excavations/tombs/maya–merit/superstructure.