Tutankhamen (47 page)

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

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

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

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