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Diaryland
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Reviewed by: Cath

Rating: 10/10

Genre: Nonfiction
330 pages/1997

The Lost Tomb
by
Kent Weeks


Ancient Egypt through the eyes of someone, who loves what he is doing. And it shows in his writing. He tells us what the Theban Mapping Project is and how it came to exist. It eventually leads him to re-discover KV5, "the greatest discovery at the Valley of the Kings since Tutankhamen". Great read, very exciting, you feel as if you are digging that tomb together with Kent Weeks and his team. And he throws in some new theories of his own on what it could all mean. Very readable, not just a dry recount of events and it wants you to read more about it all. It also gives you a nice look into the Upper Egypt of today and its people.

I read it a while ago, then gave it to a colleague and now it has come back to me... Let's see, perhaps I should release it at the Cairo Museum?

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