Once believed to have lived during the reign of pharaoh Senusret III of the 12th Dynasty, from the analysis of his furniture it has been deducted that he actually lived in an earlier period, although a degree of uncertainty still remains: it is very difficult to trace Djehutynakht's family and life events, and the only certain relationship is that with his wife, also named Djehutynakht.

Djehutynakht's tomb – designated 10A – was rediscovered in the Deir el-Bersha necropolis in Middle Egypt in 1915 by the American Egyptologist George Andrew Reisner who was the leader of the Harvard University – Boston Museum of Fine Arts expedition.

[2] Almost nothing was left of the outer chapel but the burial chamber, although already raided of the jewelry, still contained four finely painted cedar wood coffins belonged to Djehutynakht and his wife.

[3] In addition to the coffins, the tomb contained the nomarch's mummified head[4][5] as well as lady Djehutynakht's canopic chest and a great quantity of funerary furniture such as pottery, canopic jars, several model boats, many models of men and women in different daily life activities, and the famous group composed of a priest and many offering girls, known as “Bersha procession”.

[6] Similar sequences have been observed in ancient DNA from Phoenicia and Europe but without an exact match and nearest match is a living person from Lebanon and the observed U5 lineage could potentially reflect interactions between Egypt and the Near East that date as far back as the Predynastic and Early Dynastic periods.