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Book Review, © Copyright 1999, Jim Loy
This is the story of KV5, a tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Its entrance was apparently visible for millennia, and it was thought to be empty and of no importance. Then in the 19th Century its entrance was covered over with debris, and it was lost. The author and his team rediscovered the tomb, which was about to be covered over with a paved road. And they discovered that the tomb had over a hundred rooms, easily the largest tomb in Egypt. This book is the story of the discovery, and the story of the sons of Ramses II, and the story of the work of excavation and preservation that still goes on today.
See the Theban Mapping Project.
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