Editing Amduat (section)

=== Other Examples of ''Amduat'' Tombs ===
The [[vizier]] to Thutmose III, [[Useramen|Useramun]], was a rare example of someone not of royal-birth having their tomb in the ''Amduat'' style. This may be due to many reasons, but shows how exclusive royal tombs were to the pharaoh and his immediate family. It is notable that Useramun's tomb only contained the images of hours 3 and 4, not the whole journey of the sun which only adds to the exclusivity of the ''Amduat'' to royalty in Ancient Egyptian funerary traditions.
[[File:Raum_des_Sarkophags_KV35.jpg|thumb|324x324px|Burial chamber of [[KV35]], the tomb of [[Amenhotep II]], decorated with scenes from the Amduat]]
[[Amenhotep II]] ([[KV35|KV 35]]) and [[Amenhotep III]] ([[WV22|KV 22]]) both have examples of completed ''Amduat'' texts within their burial tombs as well, following many of the conventions that Thutmose III began within his tomb.

Later Eighteenth Dynasty tombs strayed away from this approach to follow a more linear design style, being arranged by a single long corridor and  straightening out the previously ‘bent axe’ style of earlier pharaohs.<ref name=":122" /> The ''Amduat'' was still present in these tombs, though was not only reserved for the burial chambers, as it was depicted throughout the various parts of the tomb. Additionally, with the rise of the [[Ramesside Period]] in the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt, the ''Amduat'' began to appear alongside other funerary texts like ''[[Book of Gates|The Book of Gates]]'' and ''The [[Book of Caverns]]'' as expansions of the mythos of the Egyptian Underworld.<ref name=":122" />

At the end of the New Kingdom, the ''Amduat'' seems to have lost its exclusivity, appearing on both coffins and papyri for deceased people of a lower class than royalty or nobility. <ref name=":0" />