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Ancient Egypt Magazine

Volume 6 issue 5 April 2006

THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS

ANCIENTEGYPT explores the WORLD WIDE WEB ...

The discovery of a new tomb in the Valley of the Kings has caught the public’s imagination once again and so, to keep up to date with developments and discoveries, ANCIENTEGYPT’s readers should look at the KV63 official web-site at:

www.kv-63.com/pages/1/index.htm

This new discovery in the Valley was made by a team from the University of Memphis, led by Dr Otto Schaden, who are excavating/recording the Nineteenth Dynasty tomb of the pharaoh Amenmesse, KV10. To find out more about their ongoing work in KV10, refer to the their web-site at:

www.kv-10.com/

Dr Schaden also recently gave a lecture, in Luxor, about the work of the KV10 Mission, outlining the process leading up to the discovery of the new tomb, and so readers might like to read a report of this lecture given at:

http://touregypt.net/TEBlog/luxornews/?p=181

In recent years the Valley of the Kings Foundation/Amarna Royal Tombs Project, led by Dr Nicholas Reeves, has also been doing extensive work in the centre of the Valley and a full record of their excavations and discoveries to date are given on their web-site at:

www.valleyofthekings.org/vofk/default.htm

A news web-site at:

www.egyptology.blogspot.com/

provided by Andie Byrne, is also a really useful site for picking up the latest news on any new discoveries made in Egypt, and of course (at the moment) those made in the Valley of the Kings.

A general discussion of the development of the Valley of the Kings is given on the Tour Egypt web-site at:

www.touregypt.net/featurestories/valley.htm

whilst an article about actually building the tombs in the Valley can be found at:

www.touregypt.net/featurestories/Tomb.htm.

Without doubt the best site to visit for information about the Valley of the Kings is still The Theban Mapping Project’s website at:

http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/

Although originally set up to describe the work undertaken in KV5, the huge tomb built for the sons of Rameses II, this magnificent web-site now provides detailed information on all of the tombs in the Valley. The "Atlas of the Valley of the Kings" is one of the site’s major features, as it enables you to examine any tomb in great detail. You can play an introductory video and then enter the Atlas itself. By clicking on "Description", you can view a movable plan of the tomb and have a detailed description of the room you are looking at. The plan can be enlarged, room by room, corridor by corridor, with the description changing to give you the appropriate information for the view you are looking at. A gallery of photographs for each tomb is also provided – many of which can be enlarged so that you can look at them in detail. In addition the site provides "guided tours" given by Professor Kent Weeks himself.

The other major site associated with the Valley of the Kings is the Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation web-site provided by the Griffith Institute of Oxford University. This site holds all the records from the excavation of the Tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter. Visit:

www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/gri/4tut.html

to read Howard Carter’s diaries of his discovery (noting that he did not say "Wonderful things"), and to see the record cards of the excavation, listing all the items found, and the "wonderful photographs" taken by excavation photographer Harry Burton.

The Tour Egypt web-site gives background information on many of the tombs in the Valley, notably KV34, the tomb of Tuthmose III, the earliest tomb in the Valley open to the public, at:

www.touregypt.net/featurestories/tuthmosis3t.htm,

the beautifully decorated tomb, KV57, of King Horemheb at:

http://touregypt.net/featurestories/horemheb.htm

and the famous tomb of King Sety I, KV17, at:

www.touregypt.net/featurestories/seti1.htm

In addition, tourists often overlook the tombs situated in the isolated West Valley of the Kings, so have a look at the tombs of king Ay at:

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/ayt.htm

(which is open to visitors) and the closed tomb of king Amenhotep III at:

http://touregypt.net/featurestories/amenhotep3t.htm

Enjoy your "virtual" tour of the Valley of the Kings!

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