Here you see an overview of Tombos before we began excavating.  Right now it doesn’t look like much, but 3000 years ago ten pyramids of Egyptian nobles rose towards Re, the sun god, promising immortality for their inhabitants.  A short distance away we discovered a cemetery of shaft tombs and underground chambers where the middle class occupants of Tombos were buried. First I will tell you about our surprising discoveries among the middle class, then I will finish with the pyramid of the noble Siamun and his wife Weran. In the middle class area, we found several shaft tombs and one tomb with a series of underground chambers.  The burials on top had been badly disturbed by ancient looters, presenting us with a ghoulish topsy-turvey mass of bones.  But down at the bottom, the looters got tired, and left us around a dozen intact burials rich in finds that give us important clues to the religious beliefs, health and wealth of the colonists.