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Article: Christine Lilyquist with James E. Hoch & A.J. Peden. The Tomb of Three Foreign Wives of Tuthmosis III.(Book Review)
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- September 1, 2005
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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 sterling].
On 14 August 1916 Ernest Mackay, living on the West Bank at Luxor and involved in a project to record private tombs at Thebes, wrote "About a week ago I received information that a great find of jewellery etc., had been made in the valley called Gebanet el Gurud ... I immediately informed Tewfik Boutros Effendi, the inspector of Antiquities of what I had heard, and went ...