While King David ruled in Jerusalem, a tall, strapping Egyptian general, named Unjebanenjebet began to have intimations of mortality. Like any Egyptian noble, what concerned him most was the proper accouterments for his journey to the Land of the Dead. His Pharaoh, Psousennes, who ruled at Tanis, near present-day Port Said, had assigned him a burial chamber in the wall of his own royal tomb. But the next essential, a proper stone sarcophagus, was hard to find.
Egypt was plagued with foreign wars and domestic turmoil; Nile transportation had broken down, and the supply of granite blocks from the upriver country had...
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