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Tutmania
Twain, Mark
‘Two Brothers'
Tyndale, Walter
Typhon (Seth)
UNESCO
University of Michigan: Department of Orthodontics
Ur: excavation of royal death pits (1920s)
uraeus
Valley of the Kings
Biban el-Moluk (‘Valley of the Doors of the Kings')
burial of New Kingdom pharaohs in
explorers and treasure-hunters
flooding
hiatus in building programme
home of Tutankhamen's tomb
ideal site for a secret cemetery
map
Napoleon's Commission
only one Egyptologist allowed to work in the Valley at a time
royal burials moved to
royal caches
second life of tombs
Sicard recognises and records its true nature
tomb numbers
tomb robberies
tombs officially opened and contents removed
Tutankhamen's ancestors
a
wadi
see also
King's Valley (KV) tombs
Valley of the Queens
tomb numbers
‘Velma'
Victoria, Queen
Vigl, Dr Eduard Egarter
Vogelsang-Eastwood, Gilliam
Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud (Valley of the Ape)
Wadjet (cobra goddsess)
Wahba, Magdi
Walker, Amy
Walker, Phyllis
Webb, Jane
The Mummy
Weigall, Arthur Edward Pearse Broome
Antiquities Inspector
attitude to wealthy amateurs
and British Empire Exhibition
Davis pays for EAS excavations
on Davis's amateur status
describes the KV 55 tomb
on excavation costs
Sakkara Affair
stops excavating for Davis
and Tutankhamen's curse
visits KV 46 with Davis
Life and Times of Akhenaten, Pharaoh of Egypt
Tutankhamen and Other Essays
Weigall, Hortense
Wembley replicas
Wente, Edward F.
Weret-Hekau (a goddess)
West Bank
West Cemetery, Middlebury, Vermont
Westbury, Richard Bethell, Lord
Western Valley
Amenhotep III's tomb
Amenhotep IV's tomb
Ay's open tomb
excavation of Tutankhamen's tomb
flooding
Napoleon's Commission
Tiy buried alongside her husband
tomb numbers
tombs
KV 22: Amenhotep III's tomb
KV 23: Ay's tomb
Tutankhamen's ancestors
Wilkinson, John Gardner
Williams, V.
Winlock, Herbert Eustis
Winter Palace Hotel, Luxor
‘wishing cup'
wool
Woolley, Leonard
Woolworth's
writing equipment
Yale University
Yehia, Abdel Aziz Bey
York University
Younger Lady (KV 35YL)
Yuya
Tiy's father
tomb of (KV 46)
Zaghlul Pasha, Mohammed
Zaghlul Pasha, Saad
Zannanza
Zivie, Alain
Ziwar Pasha, Ahmed
Copyright © 2012 by Joyce Tyldesley
 
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