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THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS REDISCOVERED

The Victor Loret Excavation Journals (1898-1899) and other manuscripts

 

LA VALLE DEI RE RISCOPERTA.

I giornali di scavo di Victor Loret (1898-1899) e altri inediti. 

Trascrizioni dei manoscritti: Luc Gabole, Christian Orsenigo, Patrizia Piacentini, Vincent Rondot.

 

by Patrizia Piacentini and Christian Orsenigo

 

 

A publication of the Università degli Studi di Milano and Skira, Milan/Geneva, 2004.

Text in Italian. Accompanied by an English-language translation pamphlet by Dr. Stephen Quirke

which is exclusively available from Ars Libri.

 

Published in collaboration with the University of Milan, the volume presents the recently discovered excavation journal of the celebrated Egyptologist Victor Loret, who made some of the most important discoveries in Egypt in the nineteenth century. The manuscripts provide an extraordinary account of Loret's work in the Valley of the Kings in 1883 and 1898-99, where he discovered the tombs of Tuthmosis III, Amenhotep II, prince Maiherperi and others, and worked on other royal tombs already known at the time.

 

In the tomb of Amenhotep II, Loret found the mummy of Tuthmosis IV, Amenhotep III, Merenptah,

Sethi II, Siptah, Ramses IV, V, and VI, and probably also queens Tiye and Tausret, deposited there around 1000 B.C. The find, later to be called the second royal cachette, was until now known only through an article published by Loret, and much scholarly doubt was expressed concerning the existence of his excavation journals.

 

Detailed examination of material in the Archives of Egyptology of the University of Milan, which include almost the whole of Loret's archives, and of his other notebooks now at the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris, has revealed the steps leading to the discovery of the second royal cachette. In this way, it has been possible to reconstruct the exact positions of the objects found in the tombs, and bring to life the controversy that surrounded the transportation of the mummies to Cairo in 1898.

 

The original texts have been transcribed and annotated, the maps reproduced and updated, and the original positions of the objects indicated. The volume is lavishly illustrated with color reproductions of the manuscripts, Loret's watercolors, maps, ancient and modern photographs of the tombs, and objects. The diaries, letters, excavation journals and notes for lectures of this eminent Egyptologist eloquently tell the story of the most important discoveries in the Valley of the Kings until Howard Carter arrived in the twentieth century to unearth the tomb of Tutankhamen.

 

 

406pp. Lavishly illustrated in color throughout. Folio. Wraps.

 

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