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4 unusual facts about Valley of the Kings


Edwin C. Brock

He is currently working on royal sarcophagi in the Valley of the Kings.

KV63

Location = East Valley of the Kings|

KV63 is the most recently opened chamber in Egypt's Valley of the Kings pharaonic necropolis.

Tombs of the Kings

The Valley of the Kings in Egypt was sometimes known as the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings (see, for example, H. Carter, "Report on tomb-pit opened on the 26th January 1901 in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings", Les annales du service des antiquités de l’égypte 2 (1901).


Gaston Maspero

It was Maspero who recommended Carter to George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon in 1907, when the Earl approached him to seek advice for the use of an expert to head his planned archaeological expedition to the Valley of the Kings.

Gorton Monastery

In 1997, Gorton Monastery was placed on the World Monuments Fund Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites in the World alongside Pompeii, the Taj Mahal and the Valley of the Kings.

KV11

Located in the main valley of the Valley of the Kings, the tomb was originally started by Setnakhte, but abandoned when it broke into the earlier tomb of Amenmesse (KV10).

KV18

Tomb KV18, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, was intended for the burial of Pharaoh Ramesses X of the Twentieth Dynasty; however, because it was apparently abandoned while still incomplete and since no funerary equipment has ever found there, it is uncertain whether it was actually used for his burial.

KV19

Tomb KV19, located in a side branch of Egypt's Valley of the Kings, was intended as the burial place of Prince Ramesses Sethherkhepshef, better known as Pharaoh Ramesses VIII, but was later used for the burial of Prince Mentuherkhepshef instead, the son of Ramesses IX, who predeceased his father.

Manuel Franquelo

In 2002, Franquelo and Lowe contributed to a project, supported by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture and the Supreme Council of Antiquities, to laser-scan and replicate the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings, which was completed in 2010.

Qen

His titles included Servant in the Place of Truth, meaning that he work on the excavation and decoration of nearby royal tombs.

The Ape Who Guards the Balance

Since Emerson has managed to annoy M. Maspero to the point of distraction, he is initially not even allowed near the Valley of the Kings, where another of Emerson’s rivals and targets of invective, Theodore M. Davis, has the rights to the entire valley.

Twosret

Theodore Davis identified the Queen and her husband in a cache of jewelry found in tomb KV56 in the Valley of the Kings.


see also

KV 1

KV1, the tomb of Pharaoh Ramesses VII in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt