Tombs of the Kings of the First Dynasty

Here is an article on the burial of the kings of Egypt's first dynasty the article mentions the sacrifices of those kings courtiers to serve them in the afterlife.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/index.html

The article mentions that Flinders Petrie believed that some of the courtiers had moved during burial. Here is his report you can view the pictures and decide for yourself and if strangled they would not have moved. Poison sounds right!

http://www.etana.org/coretexts/15142.pdf