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New tomb found in Valley of Kings: Site marks first found since King Tut
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CAIRO, Egypt - The first tomb to be discovered in the Valley of
the Kings since King Tut's in 1922 contains five sarcophagi with
mummies, breaking the nearly centurylong belief that there's nothing
more to find in the valley where some of Egypt's greatest pharaohs
were buried.
The tomb's spare appearance suggests it was not dug for a pharaoh,
said U.S. archaeologist Kent Weeks, who was not involved in the
University of Memphis team's find but has seen photographs of the
site. "It coul...
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Tomb found in Valley of Kings
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; CAIRO, Egypt -- The first tomb to be discovered in the Valley of the Kings since King Tut's in 1922 contains five sarcophagi with mummies, breaking the nearly centurylong belief that there's nothing more to find in the valley where some of Egypt's greatest pharaohs were buried. The tomb's spare
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Life and Death in Ancient Egypt: Scenes from Private Tombs in New Kingdom Thebes. (Reviews of Books).
The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; Life and Death in Ancient Egypt: Scenes from Private Tombs in New Kingdom Thebes. By SIGRID HODEL-HOENES; translated by DAVID WARBURTON. Ithaca: CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2000. Pp. xii + 329, illus. $49.95. The private rock tombs of ancient Thebes comprise an important corpus for the study of
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First tomb found in Egypt since King Tut's
China Daily
; CAIRO: The first tomb to be discovered in the Valley of the Kings since King Tut's in 1922 contains five sarcophagi with mummies, breaking the nearly century long belief that there's nothing more to find in the valley where some of Egypt's greatest pharaohs were buried. The tomb's spare appearance
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Christine Lilyquist with James E. Hoch & A.J. Peden. The Tomb of Three Foreign Wives of Tuthmosis III.(Book Review)
Antiquity
; CHRISTINE LILYQUIST with JAMES E. HOCH & A.J. PEDEN. The tomb of three foreign wives of Tuthmosis III. xv+395 pages, 269 figures & plates, 7 tables. 2003. New York (NY): Metropolitan Museum of Art; 1-58839-070-5; New Haven (CT): Yale University Press; 0-300-10121-X hardback 85 [pounds
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Tales from the tomb
Boys' Life
; ... worked best. "In 1987 we opened Tomb 5," Dr. Weeks says. "We knew within 20 feet where the entrance was from studying 19th century maps and records." The tomb is the largest found in the region. One room is more than 50 feet square, carved from solid rock. Massive ...
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