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Archäologischer Bericht über die Wiederentdeckung und Erforschung der größten und einzigartigen, mehr als 100 Räume umfassenden Grabanlage im "Tal der Könige", die letzte Ruhestätte der meisten der 50 Söhne Ramses' II. In seiner persönlichen und anschaulichen Darstellung schildert der amerikanische Ägyptologe die schwierigen Umstände und bisherigen Ergebnisse seiner Arbeit, beleuchtet den historischen Hintergrund und macht die organisatorischen Probleme einer derart weitgesteckten Ausgrabung deutlich. Farbige Abbildungen, Grundrisse und perspektivische Zeichnungen erhöhen die Anschaulichkeit und machen die Bedeutung dieser Grabanlage sichtbar; zum Thema "Das Tal der Könige" wurde zuletzt C. Jacq (BA 2/99) vorgestellt. Ein spezielles, für archäologisch Interessierte aber sehr empfehlenswertes Werk. (2) (Erdmann Steinmetz)… (mehr)
jlelliott: John Romer's history of the Valley of the Kings provides a wonderful setting for Week's story about tomb KV5. The Lost Tomb is a great continuation of the valley's story, elaborating on modern archaeological work in this ancient site.
I'm an avocational Egyptologist. That's one step above simply being nuts about Egypt, and I figure I can claim the title since I actually spent two long years in college studying the Ancient Egyptian language with a man who really disliked me a lot. I wish it had been Kent Weeks.
The discovery of KV5 set the archaeological world on its ear. While it should probably be no surprise that Rameses the Great would command his tomb builders to dig out enough rooms to bury all 62 of his sons, the feat was, nevertheless, an amazing task. A small group of men, using tools of copper — a metal that is so soft that you can bend a sheet in your hands, that would demand sharpening after only a few moments of digging — created a veritable palace within the limestone walls of the Valley of the Kings. And Professor Weeks, when he found it, has faced almost the same effort to excavate the tomb out of the centuries of flood debris that had filled it from top to bottom.
There has been no find in the Valley of the Kings as significant as this since Howard Carter found Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922. -The Lost Tomb- is the story of that discovery and Weeks' role in it.
The book is absorbing. Weeks writes much as he speaks, with the same enthusiasm for his topic as he has shown in interviews. He is meticulous in his descriptions, and able to back up his conclusions because of his long work in Egyptology.
This is a splendid book. Weeks writes almost as well as he discovers and digs. He has shown himself to be an excellent, enthusiastic teacher of things Egyptian, and I'm happy to recommend this to others.
Also, take note of the fact that Weeks was also the leader of the multi-year project, the Theban Mapping Project, to map the Valley tombs to create an complete atlas. If you're as much of an Egyptophile as I, you may want to find a copy of it. He was also co-author of X-Raying the Pharoahs. ( )
Archäologischer Bericht über die Wiederentdeckung und Erforschung der größten und einzigartigen, mehr als 100 Räume umfassenden Grabanlage im "Tal der Könige", die letzte Ruhestätte der meisten der 50 Söhne Ramses' II. In seiner persönlichen und anschaulichen Darstellung schildert der amerikanische Ägyptologe die schwierigen Umstände und bisherigen Ergebnisse seiner Arbeit, beleuchtet den historischen Hintergrund und macht die organisatorischen Probleme einer derart weitgesteckten Ausgrabung deutlich. Farbige Abbildungen, Grundrisse und perspektivische Zeichnungen erhöhen die Anschaulichkeit und machen die Bedeutung dieser Grabanlage sichtbar; zum Thema "Das Tal der Könige" wurde zuletzt C. Jacq (BA 2/99) vorgestellt. Ein spezielles, für archäologisch Interessierte aber sehr empfehlenswertes Werk. (2) (Erdmann Steinmetz)
The discovery of KV5 set the archaeological world on its ear. While it should probably be no surprise that Rameses the Great would command his tomb builders to dig out enough rooms to bury all 62 of his sons, the feat was, nevertheless, an amazing task. A small group of men, using tools of copper — a metal that is so soft that you can bend a sheet in your hands, that would demand sharpening after only a few moments of digging — created a veritable palace within the limestone walls of the Valley of the Kings. And Professor Weeks, when he found it, has faced almost the same effort to excavate the tomb out of the centuries of flood debris that had filled it from top to bottom.
There has been no find in the Valley of the Kings as significant as this since Howard Carter found Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922. -The Lost Tomb- is the story of that discovery and Weeks' role in it.
The book is absorbing. Weeks writes much as he speaks, with the same enthusiasm for his topic as he has shown in interviews. He is meticulous in his descriptions, and able to back up his conclusions because of his long work in Egyptology.
This is a splendid book. Weeks writes almost as well as he discovers and digs. He has shown himself to be an excellent, enthusiastic teacher of things Egyptian, and I'm happy to recommend this to others.
Also, take note of the fact that Weeks was also the leader of the multi-year project, the Theban Mapping Project, to map the Valley tombs to create an complete atlas. If you're as much of an Egyptophile as I, you may want to find a copy of it. He was also co-author of X-Raying the Pharoahs. ( )