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Article: 'Wonderful things' on paper: the Egyptologist Victor Loret in the Valley of the Kings.
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- July 1, 2003
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Victor Loret (1859-1946) (Fig. 1) studied Egyptology in Paris with e famous scholar Gaston Maspero. In 1881, he joined him in Egypt, where he stayed for five years, becoming one of the first members of the French Archaeological Mission in Cairo. With Maspero, Loret travelled down the Nile, and was enchanted by the country. (1) In 1883, he worked in Thebes with Eugene Lefebure in royal and other tombs, copying their decoration and studying their inscriptions (Fig. 2). (2) This was his first contact with the Valley of the Kings, where, fifteen years later, he would make the greatest discovery of his life--the tombs of Thutmoses III and Amenhotep II. From 1886 until 1929 he ...
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