The silver pharaohs: The treasures of Tanis

The end of the New Kingdom marked profound changes in the history of ancient Egypt, changes that affected both the political and cultural landscape. There followed some 400 years of politically divided rule and diffused power, a time-frame known as the Third Intermediate Period (c.1069-747 BC). Control was split between the kings of the Twenty-first Dynasty ruling from Tanis in the Delta, and the Amun priesthood at Thebes whose power had been increasing throughout much of the New Kingdom. During the New Kingdom, the kings of Egypt were buried at Thebes, but until the 1930s and 1940s, little was known about the burial places of the subsequent kings of the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Dyn