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Atlas of the Valley of the Kings (The Theban mapping project)

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This guide is easy to use and allows the user to examine the tombs of the Valley of the Kings from different angles. The guide provides maps for all of tombs with the exception of the tomb discovered in early February 2006 (KV 63). A great resourse for anyone interested in the Valley of the Kings!!!

What a wonderful study edition helping you to examine the tombs in the Valley of the Kings in a more scrutinious manner. It gives you every single tomb with images from different angles. Of course, there is a whole collection of maps in one edition, but this edition comprises all this in a book. It's amazing.

Great book...exactly what I was hoping for. The only problem I have with it is that the tombs are presented in KV number order. Because the tombs are numbered by the rather stupid criterion of the order they were excavated, it is difficult to trace the development of the architecture. One has to flip through the book all over the place to do so. It would have made much more sense to present them in the order they were created (or at least present them in both ways but that would have doubled the size and cost of the book). Two things I would love to see...a new updated edition that includes the full length of the tunnel under KV17 (now being cleared by gas bag Hawass), the updated plan for KV5 (with the 3D view from the opposite angle so we can see corridor 25), KV63, AND the addition of material form TMP's web site (pictures, descriptions, resources, etc.)...a sort of 'illuminated' edition.

This book was not at all what I was expecting. Having read an article about this project and the author in a magazine, I was expecting a detailed history of the project, with comments from the author, pictures of the excavations, overall maps of the area, specific locations of tombs, and pictures or descriptions of artifacts inside. What I got was a book of blueprints of the tombs - interesting to some, perhaps, but not what I wanted.