Egypt
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar)
The usual thanks to Jane for going to the trouble of taking notes at the Mummification Museum lectures in Luxor and for sharing them on her blog.
See the above page for the rest of Jane's comprehensive lecture notes.
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- Mummification Museum Lecture - Tt11 And Tt12 At Dra Abu El Naga
Luxor News blog (Jane Akshar) This was an excellent lecture but my notes were done under challenging conditions. They turned off ALL the lights so I was trying to right by the light of the slides. Dr Jose gave an excellent lecture and it was really interesting....
- Luxor News - Jane Akshar
Luxor News by Jane Akshar Jane has been very busy with her blog recently and has posted some good newsworthy items as well as some lovely photographs. Amongst the highlights are: A visit to the Early Dynastic tombs at Umm el-Qaab (Abydos)Recent work at...
Egypt
Lecture notes: Recent Investigations of Undecorated Tombs in the Valley of Kings
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar)
The usual thanks to Jane for going to the trouble of taking notes at the Mummification Museum lectures in Luxor and for sharing them on her blog.
Recent Investigations of Undecorated Tombs in the Valley of Kings
8/11/8 Donald Ryan
If you ever get a chance to attend one of his lectures I do encourage you to go. Not only is he knowledgeable and interesting but he is amusing as well. First class lecturer
His work is the unglamorous side of excavation and not normally seen by tourists as it is tucked away behind the mountain in the middle of the Valley.
He gave a brief background of how he got into Egyptology, started young ready National Geographic’s. In 1981 he was working in the Faiyum and got a chance to visit Luxor. He came in July, on a bike, that remark caused a ripple of laughter. 18 months later he came on a 2 month visit to Egypt and went round everywhere. The Valley of the Kings contains the new kingdom burials of the Pharaohs of the New Kingdom. The 18, 19, 20 dynasty Pharaohs but he was intrigued by the undecorated tombs. He then started researching one of his sources being the great book The Royal Necropolis of Thebes by Elizabeth Thomas http://www.brown.edu/Research/Breaking_Ground/results.php?d=1&first=Elizabeth&last=Thomas
In early times the undecorated tombs were considered very uninteresting, with no decoration therefore no owner and o treasure the early archaeologists were singularly unbothered about the tombs and their contents. Often they were just a shaft leading to a single room.
He wanted to know the WHO, WHEN and WHY of KV21, 27, 28, 44, 45, 60
If you look at the list of tombs in the Valley of Kings from the Theban Mapping Project http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/ you will find a number of tombs with question marks against them. Some like Tutankhamen (KV62), Yuya and Thuyu (KV 46), and Maiherperi (KV36) were discovered intact and the last two if made today would attract huge attention as they were spectacular discoveries. But many others we have no clue about.
See the above page for the rest of Jane's comprehensive lecture notes.
- Lecute Notes: University Of Basel Kings Valley Project – Suzanne Bickel
Luxor News (Jane Akshar) As this was the very first lecture about the newly discovered tomb KV64 the room was completely full but Suzanne teased us just a little bit by putting it in context with all the work they have done. The team are working on the...
- Valley Of The Kings Undecorated Tombs Prelimnary Report
University of Basel Again, thanks to Kate's News from the Valley of the Kings for the above link to information about the 2011 season at undecorated tombs in the Valley of the Kings. With map and photos. Preliminary Report on the Work Performed...
- Variations On An Enigma
Al Ahram Weekly Recent discoveries at the Valley of the Kings on Luxor's west bank have changed the understanding of one of the most intriguing archaeological sites in Egypt, says Nevine El-Aref The Valley of the Kings is one of the richest and most...
- Mummification Museum Lecture - Tt11 And Tt12 At Dra Abu El Naga
Luxor News blog (Jane Akshar) This was an excellent lecture but my notes were done under challenging conditions. They turned off ALL the lights so I was trying to right by the light of the slides. Dr Jose gave an excellent lecture and it was really interesting....
- Luxor News - Jane Akshar
Luxor News by Jane Akshar Jane has been very busy with her blog recently and has posted some good newsworthy items as well as some lovely photographs. Amongst the highlights are: A visit to the Early Dynastic tombs at Umm el-Qaab (Abydos)Recent work at...