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Article: Howard Carter - 70 years after Tutankhamun. (British Egyptologist) (Special Feature)
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- February 1, 1993
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THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS is a place of stark and arid splendour situated to the west of modern day Luxor, ancient Thebes, on the opposite side of the River Nile. Almost every king of the New Kingdom, which included the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth dynasties, was to be buried there. It was the lure of the immense riches with which those ancient pharaohs were laid to rest that served to attract the attentions of all those who have dug at this site, those with and those without official permission. To date excavation work has brought to light 80 or so tombs or pits in the Valley of the Kings but few of these had remained undisturbed by tomb robbers at the time of their ...