After Tutankhamun

After Tutankhamun
Author: C.N. Reeves
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2013-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136152989

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.

Valley of the Kings

Valley of the Kings
Author: Kent R. Weeks
Publisher: White Star Publishers
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN: 9788854406292

"The large trim size gives best advantage to the more than 800 incomparable color illustrations, some on fold-out pages. Plans and cutaway reconstruction help orient the reader for an exciting visual tour. A spectacular achievement, highly recommended for all public and academic libraries."--"Library Journal." "This book is the next best thing to being there."--"Booklist."

The Oxford Handbook of the Valley of the Kings

The Oxford Handbook of the Valley of the Kings
Author: Richard H. Wilkinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 649
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199931631

The royal necropolis of New Kingdom Egypt, known as the Valley of the Kings (KV), is one of the most important - and celebrated - archaeological sites in the world. Located on the west bank of the Nile river, about three miles west of modern Luxor, the valley is home to more than sixty tombs, all dating to the second millennium BCE. The most famous of these is the tomb of Tutankhamun, first discovered by Howard Carter in 1922. Across thirty-eight chapters, this handbook locates the Valley of the Kings in space and time, examines individual tombs, their construction, content, development, and significance, reviews modern research and exploration in the valley, and discusses the current status of ongoing issues of preservation and archaeology.

Thebes, its Tombs and their Tenants Ancient and Present

Thebes, its Tombs and their Tenants Ancient and Present
Author: Alexander Henry Rhind
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2014
Genre: Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN: 1108076084

His independent means as the son of a wealthy banker enabled Alexander Henry Rhind (1833-63) to devote his short life to antiquarianism. While reading for the Scottish bar, he studied and investigated Pictish remains, and pressed for the inclusion of archaeological sites in Ordnance Survey maps. On developing tubercular symptoms, he gave up his legal studies and passed the winters from 1855 to 1857 in Egypt, where he made the important studies and excavations recorded in this 1862 book. He focuses on the necropolis of Thebes, and in particular on the unplundered tomb of an eighteenth-dynasty official. Putting his work into the wider context of the history of ancient Egypt and the importance of the city of Thebes, he also describes the reuse of the necropolis ruins as homes for modern Egyptian peasants and as the centre of a thriving trade in antiquities, both genuine and forged.

Sacred Space and Sacred Function in Ancient Thebes

Sacred Space and Sacred Function in Ancient Thebes
Author: Betsy M. Bryan
Publisher: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2007-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1614910650

This volume presents a series of papers delivered at a two-day session of the Theban Workshop held at the British Museum in September 2003. Due to its political and religious prominence throughout much of pharaonic history, the region of ancient Thebes offers scholars a wealth of monuments whose physical remains and extant iconography may be combined with textual sources and archaeological finds in ways that elucidate the function of sacred space as initially conceived, and which also reveal adaptations to human need or shifts in cultural perception. The contributions herein address issues such as the architectural framing of religious ceremony, the implicit performative responses of officiants, the diachronic study of specific rites, the adaptation of sacred space to different uses through physical, representational, or textual alteration, and the development of ritual landscapes in ancient Thebes.

Valley of the Kings

Valley of the Kings
Author: John Romer
Publisher: William Morrow
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1981
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Tells of the tombs of ancient Egyptians and the story of the archeologists and their hunt for the past.

Thebes in the First Millennium BC

Thebes in the First Millennium BC
Author: Julia Budka
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 650
Release: 2014-04-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 144385963X

Thebes in the First Millennium BC is a collection of articles, based mostly, but not entirely, on the talks given at the conference of the same name organised by the team of the South Asasif Conservation Project, an Egyptian-American Mission working under the auspices of the Ministry of State for Antiquities, Egypt, in Luxor in 2012. The organisers of the conference and editors of the volume, Elena Pischikova, Julia Budka, and Kenneth Griffin, brought together a group of prominent scholars to share and discuss the results of their recent field research in the tombs and temples of the Twenty-fifth – Twenty-sixth Dynasties in Thebes, Abydos, and Saqqara. This volume assembles current studies on royal and elite monuments of the Libyan, Kushite, and Saite Periods, and places them in a wider context. This volume investigates such aspects of research as tomb and temple architecture, burial assemblages, religious texts, paleography, artistic styles, iconography, local workshops, and archaism, providing a new perspective to the current scholarship and future exploration of these topics. The volume is further enriched by the inclusion of chapters on the conservation and preservation of monuments representing the present-day approach to the development of archaeological sites.