Death on the Nile (with an acknowledgement to Agatha Christie’s classic mystery of the same title) is the catalogue of an exhibition of Egyptian coffins, sarcophagi, and related material held at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, in 2016. The fifty-five numbered entries, some of which represent more than one object, such as nested coffins or related pieces from the same burial, are principally from the Egyptian collection of the sponsoring museum, with a few additions lent from the Louvre and the British Museum. The basic premise is simply to put the museum’s extensive holdings of funerary artifacts into their historical context, but the discussions of materials and chronological and stylistic development take this work to an altogether higher level, as will be discussed below.