C.N. Reeves with a foreword by the Earl of Carnarvon.
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1992. This book includes research and excavation in the Royal Necropolis at Thebes presented a meeting to mark seventy fifth anniversary of 1915 when the Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter had embarked upon their search for Tut'ankhamiin, a search destined to be crowned with such stunning success eight years later. What has happened in the Valley of the Kings since that discovery was the theme of our meeting, a theme addressed over the following two days by an international panel of leading Egyptologists.
Foreword, The Earl of Carnarvon. Royal mummies of the 18th dynasty - a biologic and egyptological approach, Edward F. Wente and James E. Harris; some observations concerning uninscribed tombs in the Valley of the Kings - Donald P. Ryan; an interim report on work in KV39, September-October 1989, John Rose; a preliminary report on the re-clearance of the tomb of Amenophis III, Jiro Kondo; Akhenaten and Nefernefruaten in the tomb of Tutankhamun, J.R. Harris; Royal figures from Tutankhamun's tomb - their historical usefulness, Claude Vandersleyen; the sarcophagus in the tomb of Tutankhamun, Marianne Eaton-Krauss; zum grab sethos'I in seinem ursprunglichen zustand, Erik Hornung; the Theban mapping project and work in KV5, Kent P. Weeks; the tomb of Merenptah and its sarcophagi, Edwin C. Brock; bemerkungen zu den neu gefundenen daten im grab der konigin twosre (KV 14) im tal der konige von theben, Hartwig Altenmuller; the structure of the decoration in the tomb of Ramesses IX, Friedrich Abitz; aspects of the history of the Valley of the Kings in the Third Intermediate Period, John H. Taylor.
Commissioned to mark the 75th anniversary of the start of work in the royal burial ground by the 5th Earl of Carnavon and Howard Carter, this book presents an up-to-date review of the developments in excavation, mapping and research in the Valley of the Kings.
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Nicholas Reeves
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Commissioned to mark the 75th anniversary of the start of work in the royal burial ground by the 5th Earl of Carnavon and Howard Carter, this book presents an up-to-date review of the developments in excavation, mapping and research in the Valley of the Kings.
