Theban Mapping Project (Valley of the Kings etc)

Theban Mapping Project ^ | 1980s to present | Kent Weeks et al

[SunkenCiv]

The original page used client side image maps, and that was pretty, but a little search and replace turned it into a usable (I hope) table of links. Enjoy.

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[SunkenCiv]

US dig uncovers King Tut's neighbours
The Age | February 9, 2006 - 2:26AM
Posted on 02/08/2006 10:48:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1574477/posts

[SunkenCiv]

My guess as to the eventual URL for KV63, on the Theban Mapping Project website:
http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/sites/browse_tomb_877.html

[SunkenCiv]

still waiting for KV63 information to appear.

Atlas Movie Transcripts: KV 10
Narrated by Dr. Kent Weeks

KV 10 was originally made for the usurper Amenmeses, who apparently took over rule from Sety II. The tomb was never finished and there is no evidence that Amenmeses was actually buried here. During the construction of KV 11 next door, for Setnakht, the workmen accidentally broke into KV 10. The tomb was re-used for the burial of at least one royal woman in Dynasty 20, Queen Takhat. In the process of converting that tomb for that queen's burial, all of the decoration on the walls was removed and replaced. Although some of this decoration was seen and partly recorded in the nineteenth century, it is now lost as the result of subsequent flooding which filled the tomb with debris.

Images: 13676, 16615, 16832

[SunkenCiv]

ArchaeoBlog has quite a bit of Egyptian blips, including this one.

Dig Days:
The Valley of the Kings:
Treasure without end IV
by Zahi Hawass
Al-Ahram Weekly
22 - 28 June 2006

A year later I received a call from Farouk Hosni, the minister of culture, who said that a member of parliament had asked him to arrange for me to meet a man from Germany together with the son of Sheikh Ali. Since he wanted me to meet them, I agreed. When the two men arrived in my office I ignored Sheikh Ali's son completely, but I listened to the German man. He explained that he wanted to raise funds to be used for the discovery of the chamber of Seti I. The man said that they would collect a large amount of money for the excavation. I could not bear to listen any more, so I told him flatly: "I cannot give you permission to raise funds because I cannot be sure that you will not deceive people, and also you are not qualified to excavate." I added that we only worked with scientific institutions and the time of amateur treasure hunters was long over. My job is to protect the monuments! In the end, I saw that they had got the message -- they left and have not returned.

• KV 17
• KV 15

[SunkenCiv]

Just a re-ping to a useful topic, and this update:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1320504/posts?page=24#24

[bannie]

Pinging that which deserves to be pinged!

:-)

Great resource!!!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, Kent Weeks et al did all the work. ;')

[marsh2]

The Discovery Channel had a program on the project this evening.

[true_blue_texican]

This is sweet!! Thanks!

[Dustbunny]

Thank you, will do some surfing later with them

[SunkenCiv]

The video Rameses - Wrath of God or Man features Kent Weeks and KV5, see my review "Straw Men".

[SunkenCiv]

Just a little bump. Have a great weekend all.

Progress Reports
by Kent R. Weeks
August 2006

The TMP's photographers, Francis Dzikowski and Matjaz Kacicnic, have completed taking comprehensive digital photographs of the walls of KV tombs currently open to the public (or likely to be opened soon). This photographic survey will soon be added to the website, and users will be able to call up both general photographs of tomb walls, details of scenes, and even individual hieroglyphs for study. Four tombs were not included in the survey because of technical problems, but the following tombs were completely photographed: ...KV 52 Tutankhamen

(s/b KV 62)

[BJClinton]

Too cool bookmark and bump.

[SunkenCiv]

The TMP is probably the most well done history/archaeology website, IMHO.

[BJClinton]

I gotta agree. When I get home and I'm up with the little one I'll be playing with those maps.

[SunkenCiv]

Pingworthy, just not worth a topic of its own. Bump to a handy topic for your bookmarks.

December 23 in History
Vietnam News Agency
Sunday, December 24, 2006

1810 -- Birth of Karl Richard Lepsius, German Egyptologist; Regarded as the founder of modern archaeology, his Egyptian Chronologies laid the foundation for a scientific treatment of early Egyptian history; he was the first to measure the Valley of the Tombs of Kings in Egypt.

[SunkenCiv]

related, and a bump.

Virtual explorers comb Egypt’s ruins
Boston Globe | Monday, June 18, 2007 | Pamela Ferdinand
Posted on 06/18/2007 1:00:11 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1852194/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Still unconfirmed:

Another new tomb in the Valley of the Kings: ‘KV64’
Valley of the Kings Foundation | 31 July 2006 | Nicholas Reeves
Posted on 08/04/2006 9:20:31 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1678072/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Field photo du jour
by Dr. Anthony Cagle
Saturday, July 14, 2007

I believe this is the plan/section view generated by our survey work in 1991/1993, and produced by John Rutherford. It's the tomb where the newly identified Hatshepsut was in repose. We were there to both clear out the flood debris (and Howard Carter's backdirt) from several uninscribed tombs in the VK, map them all, and study them for possible flood mitigation. See Don Ryan's web site for a full description. You can see it's a pretty cruddy tomb. Not a straight line in it.

(I've been to Ryan's website, found bupkis.

[SunkenCiv]

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