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Book SynopsisThis handbook offers an invaluable and up-to-date resource on this criticial and fascinating World Hertiage site
Trade ReviewThis is the definitive guide, with over 600 pages covering the Valley's history, exploration, analysis, conservation and management. * Ancient Egypt *
the essays offer a complex and comprehensive insight into the history, exploration and critical study of the Valley of the Kings * Emmet Jackson, Astene Bulletin *
Table of ContentsContributors ; Abbreviations ; Preface ; Part I: Introduction ; Richard H. Wilkinson and Kent R. Weeks ; Part II: The Natural Setting ; 1. Geology of the Valley of the Kings ; Judith M. Bunbury ; 2. Toponyms of the Valley of the Kings and its Approaches ; Kent R. Weeks ; 3. The Hydrology of the Valley of the Kings: Weather, Rainfall, Drainage Patterns and Flood Protection in Antiquity ; Andreas Dorn ; Part III: The Development of the Royal Necropolis ; 4. The Egyptian Concept of a Royal Necropolis ; John H. Taylor ; 5. Earlier Royal Tombs, the Royal Cemeteries of Thebes and the Beginnings of the Valley of the Kings ; Aidan Dodson ; Part IV: Tomb Construction and Development ; 6. The Royal Necropolis Workmen of Deir el-Medina ; Robert J. Demaree ; 7. Choosing the Location for a Royal Tomb; The Workmen's Techniques and ; Tools; Units of Measurement; KV Huts and Work Places ; Andreas Dorn ; 8. The Component Parts of KV Royal Tombs ; Kent R. Weeks ; 9. Collisions, Abandonments, Alterations, Tomb Commencements/Pits and Other Features in the Valley of the Kings ; Lyla Pinch-Brock ; Part V: Royal Tomb Decoration ; 10. The Technology of Royal Tomb Decoration ; Stephen Rickerby and Lori Wong ; 11. Iconography; Palaeography; Decorative Elements; Distribution and Development of Scenes ; Heather L. McCarthy ; Part VI: Individual KV Tombs ; 12. Royal Tombs of Dynasty Eighteen ; Catharine H. Roehrig ; 13. Royal Tombs of the Nineteenth Dynasty ; Hartwig Altenmueller ; 14. Royal Tombs in Dynasty Twenty ; Aidan Dodson ; 15. Other Tombs: Queens and Commoners in KV ; Susanne Bickel ; Part VII: Contents of Royal KV Tombs ; 16. Sarcophagi ; Aidan Dodson ; 17. Canopics ; Aidan Dodson ; 18. Other Tomb Goods ; Campbell Price ; Part VIII: Getting to the Afterlife ; 19. Mortuary Ritual in the Valley of the Kings ; Alexandra von Lieven ; 20. Symbolic Aspects of Royal Tombs ; Richard H. Wilkinson ; 21. The Royal Funerary Books: The Subject Matter of Scenes and Texts ; Joshua Roberson ; Part IX: Destruction, Desecration and Reuse ; 22. Damnatio Memoriae in the Valley of the Kings ; Richard H. Wilkinson ; 23. Usurpation and Reuse of Royal Tombs ; Richard H. Wilkinson ; 24. Intrusive Burials and Caches ; John H. Taylor ; Part X: Human Remains from the KV and their Study ; 25. Early Study and the Unwrapping of Mummies ; Rosalie David ; 26. Modern Biomedical Studies ; Rosalie David and Ryan Metcalfe ; 27. Recent Identity and Relationship Studies, Including X-Rays and DNA ; Ryan Metcalfe ; Part XI: The Administration of the KV in Dynastic Times ; 28. The Temples of Millions of Years at Western Thebes ; Martina Ullmann ; 29. Policing and Site Protection; Guard Posts; Enclosure Walls ; Carola Vogel ; 30. Tomb Robberies in the Valley of the Kings ; Ogden Goelet ; Part XII: The KV from the End of the New Kingdom to the Late 20th Century ; 31. Late Dynastic, Graeco-Roman and Christian Times; Post-New Kingdom Graffiti ; Filip Coppens ; 32. The History of KV Exploration Prior to the Late 20th Century ; Joyce Tyldesley ; Part XIII: The KV in the Late 20th and the 21st Century and Beyond ; 33. Remote Sensing in the Valley of the Kings and its Hinterlands ; Sarah H. Parcak and Gregory D. Mumford ; 34. The Search for Other Tombs ; Stephen W. Cross ; 35. Tomb Recording: Epigraphy, Photography, Digital Imaging, 3-D Surveys ; Adam Lowe ; 36. Conservation and Flood Protection ; Michael Jones ; 37. Tourism in the Valley of the Kings ; Kent R. Weeks ; 38. The Valley of the Kings in the Lives of Modern Egyptians: The People of Qurna ; Kees van der Spek ; Appendix ; Index
