> I assume the lowest-budget way to deal with a corpse in ancient Egypt is to toss it into the Nile. So what, this didn't happen and isn't consistent with any

> I assume the lowest-budget way to deal with a corpse in ancient Egypt is to toss it into the Nile. So what, this didn't happen and isn't consistent with any historical practice. An irrelevant non-sequitur to the question at hand of whether pot burial is likely to be a poor commoner or even migrant worker or some representative of elite Egyptian society. > that already disqualifies them from being poor. No it does not, you're extrapolating way to much by way of some modern interpretation there's quite a lot of debate around these particular questions of provenance of remains that you're hand waving and trivializing as clear cut.