Maya (Egyptian)

Maya was the overseer of the treasury during the reign of Pharaoh Tutankhamun and Haremhab of the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt. He was also an important official under Horemheb; noted for restoring the burials of several earlier Pharoahs in the Royal Necropolis in the years following the deaths of Tutankhamun and Ay. Maya collected taxes and performed other services for these pharaohs, including supervising the preparation of their tombs. Maya's own tomb at Saqqara was excavated in 1843 by the archaeologist Karl Richard Lepsius,and its impressive reliefs were recorded in sketches. Over time the tomb was covered by sand, and its location was lost. In 1975, however, a joint expedition of archaeologists from the Egypt Exploration Society in London and the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, the Netherlands, began an attempt to rediscover the tomb, and in 1986 they succeeded. Statues of Maya and his wife Merit have been on display in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, the Netherlands since 1823.

Bibliography

• The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt by Ian Shaw, 2003 Oxford University Press, pp.282f.
• Rice, Michael (1999). Who's Who in Ancient Egypt. Routledge. 
• The Experience of Ancient Egypt by Ann Rosalie David, 2000 Routledge, pp.107ff.

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Early Dynastic Rulers	Narmer · Hor-Aha · Menes
Old Kingdom Rulers	Djoser · Sneferu · Khufu · Khafra · Menkaura · Pepi II
Middle Kingdom Rulers	Mentuhotep II · Mentuhotep IV · Senusret III · Amenemhat III · Sobekneferu
New Kingdom Rulers	Hatshepsut · Thutmose III · Amenhotep III · Akhenaten · Tutankhamun · Ramesses I · Seti I · Ramesses II
Other Rulers	Shoshenq I · Piye · Taharqa · Psammetichus I · Necho II · Psammetichus III · Ptolemy I · Cleopatra VII  · Ptolemy XIII
Consorts	Tetisheri · Ahmose-Nefertari · Ahmose · Tiye · Nefertiti · Ankhesenamun · Nefertari · Mark Antony
Court officials	Imhotep · Weni · Ahmose, son of Ebana · Ineni · Senemut · Rekhmire · Yuya · Maya · Yuny · Manetho · Pothinus