
Название: The Oxford Handbook of the Valley of the Kings
Авторы: Richard H. Wilkinson, Kent Weeks
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2016
Страниц: 648
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 53 MB
The royal necropolis of New Kingdom Egypt, known as the Valley of the Kings (KV), is one of the most important--and celebrated--archaeological sites in the world. Located on the west bank of the Nile river, about three miles west of modern Luxor, the valley is home to more than sixty tombs, all dating to the second millennium BCE. The most famous of these is the tomb of Tutankhamun, first discovered by Howard Carter in 1922.