In this mastaba, several paintings depict both men embracing each other and touching their faces nose-on-nose. Nyankh-Khnum and Khnum-hotep each had families of their own with children and wives, but when they died their families apparently decided to bury them together in the same mastaba tomb. Both men lived and served under pharaoh Niuserre during the 5th Dynasty (c. The best known case of possible homosexuality in ancient Egypt is that of the two high officials Nyankh-Khnum and Khnum-hotep.
