From the Old Kingdom, the importing of timber for structural work and boat building created opportunities for carpenters and cabinetmakers. In the fourth dynasty tomb of Queen Hetepheres I at Giza, George Reisner found the remains of an important collection of gold-covered wooden furniture. It took many years to restore this furniture (which can now be seen in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo; copies are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). That furniture provides us with a rare glimpse of the range and quality used by the royal family at the time that both the Saqqara and Giza pyramids were being built. An equally remarkable collection of furniture was shown in the wall reliefs of the Giza tomb of Queen Meresankh III. Elaborate portable canopies were used by both queens, under which their furniture was placed. (Interestingly, the wall poles of a bed canopy are shown in the earlier paintings in Hesyra’s tomb.) Around these canopies, curtains and netting were supported on small hooks fixed to the underside of the roof beams, providing privacy and protection from insects and the chill of the desert night air. Each of the wooden entrance jambs of Queen Hetepheres I’s bed canopy is carved with inscriptions that bear the name of her husband, Sneferu, with his titles. The entire canopy has been covered with gold sheet, burnished onto the wooden elements. Where the canopy would have been damaged by the wear of its repeated assembly and dismantling, protective copper sheathes were placed over all the vulnerable joints. The curtains and netting were stored in a long gilt box inlaid with a faience feather-pattern border and the cartouches of her husband and his Horus-name, as well as other religious symbols.