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	Egypt: Thebes, A Feature Tour Egypt Story
		The royal residence and tombs, as well as most of the tombs of the court and government nobles at this time, were primarily built at Saqqara near Memphis, closer to the Delta.
		The Theban rulers were apparently of the family Inyotef, who before long began to write their names in cartouches.
		Across the river on the west bank was the necropolis with tombs and mortuary temples, but also the west part of the town.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/thebes.htm (1647 words)

	Luxor \| Egypt \| 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Across the Nile from Luxor, the Theban Necropolis testifies to the same obsession with death and resurrection that produced the pyramids.
		The Necropolis straddled the lands of the living and the dead - verdant flood plain giving way to boundless desert, echoing the path of the dead "going west" to meet Osiris as the sun set over the mountains and descended into the underworld.
		Though stripped of its treasures over thousands of years, the Necropolis keeps a peerless array of funerary monuments.
	www.hils.fsnet.co.uk /luxor/thebes/main.htm (440 words)

	General Information - User Guide - Theban Mapping Project
		The Macromedia Flash Player is required to view The Atlas of the Valley of the Kings and the Atlas of the Theban Necropolis.
		Java is required to view high-resolution Zoomify images throughout the site.
		Under Memory Requirements change the Preferred size to at least 48000k.
	www.thebanmappingproject.com /userguide.html (477 words)

	Egyptian Tomb of Menna TT69 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Dressed as elegant Theban ladies and wearing the cone of perfumed unguent, and a see-through shawl, the female representations, all probably the wife/s of Menna but unidentified because of the blank text areas, implore, with raised hands, the divinities under the top arch of the central kiosk.
		Imentet, lady of the mountain, which represents the Theban necropolis, welcomes the rest of the procession (view 38).
		Osiris (view 45), referred to as "Wennefer, lord of the necropolis, great god, lord of eternity", sits, majestically, under a canopy which rests on a structure resembling a fortress facade, the whole ensemble resting on a white plinth of Ma'at.
	www.osirisnet.net /tombes/nobles/mena/e_mena.htm (5334 words)

	Archaeological Newsletter - Series III, #3, December 1996 - ROM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Picture this: a quiet spot high on a desert hill, away from the madding crowd (local villagers and tourists) with an unobstructed view of the narrow green ribbon of vegetation flanking the River Nile, the life-blood of Egypt.
		This site is known as the Qurneh necropolis since it rests just above the village of Qurneh on the west bank of the river opposite the town of Luxor (ancient Thebes), where the famous Temple of Karnak is situated.
		Theban Tomb #89, which belonged to a courtier by the name of Amenmose, fit the bill.
	www.rom.on.ca /pub/an/archns3-3.html (1415 words)

	KV55 - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation KV55 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Tomb KV55 in Egypt's Valley of the Kings is arguably one of the most talked about tombs of the entire Theban Necropolis, perhaps due to its clear connections with the reign of the Pharaoh Akhenaten.
		When the tomb was discovered, by Theodore Davis in 1907, it was found to have been ransacked and desecrated.
		Some have argued that it is Akhenaten himself, while others suggest that it is Smenkhkare.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/KV55.html (437 words)

	Lady of the West
		She is Mistress of the Western Desert and Mistress of the Necropolis.
		Because of Her aspect as a funerary goddess, She was especially venerated in the Theban necropolis and was associated there with two local goddesses, Meretseger and Amentet.
		Het-Hert as Lady of the West, seated with Her Father Ra In Theban tombs such as that of Nefertari, the beloved wife of Ramesses II, Het-Hert wears the symbol of the West on Her head in Her role as Lady of the West ("Nebet Amentet" in the ancient language).
	www.hethert.org /ladyofthewest.html (876 words)

	Theses from Uppsala University : 2680 - Directing Deir el-Medina
		This study analyses the administrative structure of the Theban Necropolis, with focus on the changes it underwent in the mid- and late 20th dynasty.
		The administrative structure detectable in the documentation from the reign of Ramesses XI is further crystallized in the wHm mswt.
		In this context the abandonment of the walled village and changes in the character of Necropolis work, as well as in the internal administration of the work force, are discussed.
	publications.uu.se /theses/abstract.xsql?dbid=2680 (385 words)

	Luxor/Valley of the Kings - Travel Guide
		A number of archaeological excavations continue periodically within the Valley of the King's to the present day; perhaps best known is the American University of Cairo's excavation of KV5, the tomb of the Sons of Ramesses II.
		Director of this excavation is Professor Kent Weeks, also director of the Theban Mapping Project, officially granted the permit to map the Theban Necropolis in its entirety - a project now well advanced.
		The Theban Mapping Project (http://www.thebanmappingproject.com) - combining the Atlas of the Valley of the Kings and the Atlas of the Theban Necropolis in a vast, award-winning Flash-based presentation - an amazing resource for the visitor
	www.visa-bulletin.com /travel-guide/index.php/Luxor/Valley_of_the_Kings (451 words)

	necropolis -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In the Mediterranean world, they were customarily outside the city proper and often consisted of a number of cemeteries used at different times over a period of several centuries.
		Excavations of the Private Tombs in the Theban Necropolis
		Tomb of Niankhkhum and Khnumhotep in Saqqara Necropolis
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9055156 (630 words)

	Bryn Mawr Electronic Resources Review - Theban Mapping Project
		Within the Theban Sites sub-section of the Theban Necropolis section, for example, the navigation menu does not fully agree with either of the two clickable maps provided.
		If one accesses a timeline from the Theban Necropolis section and then follows a link within that timeline, she emerges in the Egyptology section, necessitating the browser's "back" button to return to the originating page.
		This feature is echoed in the Theban Necropolis section, acquainting the visitor with the individuals responsible for these ancient monuments.
	www.csanet.org /bmerr/1999/SchleThbMPJan.html (2331 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Heritage \| Thrills at Thebes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A mystery sarcophagus found in the tomb of the overseer of works during the reign of Queen Hatshepsut was opened on the Theban necropolis last week.
		The sarcophagus was found last week by a Spanish mission working at the necropolis at Thebes.
		There was enthusiastic discussion about a painted wooden tablet showing two figures, those of the deceased nobleman and Pharaoh Thutmosis III hunting ducks, their faces looking forward and not, as was usual in Pharaonic art, in profile.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/626/he1.htm (1138 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Travel \| The leaning colossi of Thebes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		As the latest technological equipment probed the ruins it was discovered, much to the surprise of the experts, that this largest of all temples on the Theban necropolis, its massive pylons, columns and walls of enormous scale, were built on no more than a bed of sand.
		Picture the kings of Babylon, Mitanni and Assyria in communication with Egypt, where "gold was as common as dust." Picture them sending their sons to be educated alongside Egyptian princes in the royal palace at Malqatta on the Theban necropolis.
		Following a presentation by Sourouzian on this work at the Merenptahits temple, Gaballa Ali Gaballa, chairman of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, commented that the danger to the monuments on the Theban necropolis was serious, and was caused by the stabilisation of the Nile after the High Dam was built.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/525/tr2.htm (2101 words)

	Resources on the Thebes Necropolis from academic institutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Necropolis of Thebes: Tomb of Ramses VI: Tomb of Ramses VI, Valley of the Kings.
		Valley of the Kings The Necropolis on the West Bank of Thebes.
		Cairo History: The Pyramids and the Sun: Constructed on the Giza plateau, a necropolis of the city of Memphis on the...
	mongabay.org /conservation/Thebes_Necropolis.htm (733 words)

	The Theban Necropolis
		For many Visitors the Theban Necropolis consists of a visit to the Memnon then some time in either the Valley of the Kings, Deir-el Medina or the Valley of the Queens.
		There is however another aspect to the West Bank which is little known, and all you need to find it is the nerve to try the local transport and an ability to ignore people trying to sell you stuff.
		All is not well on the fringes of the Theban Necropolis.
	www.akhet.co.uk /thebes.htm (524 words)

	Tomb of Nebamun
		Banquet scenes are common in tombs of the Eighteenth Dynasty in the Theban necropolis, but their significance is much harder to ascertain.
		The whole scene might be regarded as an expression of intoxication, possibly part of a shared religious experience.
		L. Manniche, Lost tombs: a study of certain eighteenth dynasty monuments in the Theban Necropolis (London, Kegan Paul International, 1988), pp.
	www.egyptianinternationalart.com /banquet.html (212 words)

	The Theban Necropolis: Past, Present and Future
		Together they present many new insights into the topography and history of the necropolis and the function and development of the various objects placed in the tombs, as well as offering valuable indications of the direction which future work might take.
		The majority of the papers were originally presented at an international conference held at the British Museum in July 2000.
		The book represented a publication of several articles presented at an international conference on the Theban necropolis that took place at the British Museum, London in 2000.
	www.literacyconnections.com /0_0714122475.html (234 words)

	The Akhenaten Temple Project's Theban Tomb Survey
		In 1988 the project was assigned three tombs in the Theban necropolis to clear, study and record.
		The one currently under investigation is the tomb of Parennefer (TT 188), one of the few Theban tombs to be carved and decorated solely during the early years of Akhenaten.
		Parennefer was the young prince's pedagogue before he came to the throne, and later served as his butler.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/d/b/dbr3/thebanto.html (281 words)

	Excavations of the Private Tombs in the Theban Necropolis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Since 1984, a number of tombs belonging to the late 18th Dynasty, from the reign of Tuthmosis IV to Horemheb, have been visited, in order to restore the original designs of the mural paintings at the "Kom al- Samak".
		From the remains of the wall paintings, it was concluded that W-5 and W-6 are the long-lost tombs A 21 and A 24.
		This area of the necropolis has also yielded a variety of isolated objects, including funerary cones, shabtis, stamped mud bricks and a stone statuette.
	www.kameda-lab.org /research/wwwtree/N_waseda/_arc/www.waseda.ac.jp/projects/egypt/sites/TT-E.html (1319 words)

	Colossi of Memnon - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Colossi of Memnon (known to locals as el-Colossat, or es-Salamat) are two massive stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III.
		For the past 3400 years they have stood in the Theban necropolis, across the River Nile from the modern city of Aswan.
		Whether associating the Colossi with his name was whimsy or wishful thinking on the part of the Greeks – they generally referred to the entire Theban Necropolis as the "Memnonium" – the name has remained in common use for the past 2000 years.)
	www.free-definition.com /Colossi-of-Memnon.html (533 words)

	Is Modern Egypt Obliterating its Past?
		The ancient Egyptians believed that the cycle of life and death was repeated every day by the sun's course as it rose over the temples of Luxor and Karnak, proceeded slowly across the river and set over the craggy hills of the Theban necropolis on the West Bank.
		Virtually all royal tombs and pyramids in ancient Egypt were placed on the West Bank of the Nile, where they believed the kingdom of the dead resided.
		Until recently, the only way to cross over to the Theban necropolis was by ferry, a long slow, twenty-minute ride amidst the chickens and goats of Egyptian farmers wearing turbans and galabayas (robes).
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF1803/Stille/Stille.html (1830 words)

	Theban Mapping Project
		The sophisticated, interactive visual resources are accompanied by explanatory texts that greatly enhance the understanding and use of these resources and serve as a springboard to understanding ancient Egyptian history in general.
		Of the two, the Theban Necropolis Atlas consists of a composite of 14 aerial images of the left bank, segmented for closer inspection.
		As the cursor moves over outlined segments, they are identified and the overview segment of the necropolis (or city of the dead) in the Valley of the Kings links to the atlas for the Valley.
	chnm.gmu.edu /worldhistorysources/r/169/whm.html (802 words)

	Bibliographie: Kent Weeks
		Weeks, Kent R. The Berkeley Map of the Theban Necropolis: Report of the Third Season.
		Weeks, Kent R. The Berkeley Map of the Theban Necropolis: Report of the Fourth Season.
		Weeks, Kent R. The Berkeley Map of the Theban Necropolis: Report of the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Seasons.
	www.kv5.de /html_german/bibliography_weeks_german.html (575 words)

	olgis-tn
		The Theban Necropolis Geological Mapping Project of the University of Charleston and the Serapis Research Institute announces the creation of the On-line Geographical Information System for the Theban Necropolis (OLGIS-TN), a pilot project sponsored, in part, by the College of Charleston Santee-Cooper Geographic Information Systems Laboratory.
		It functions as an Internet clearing house to which scholars of the Theban necropolis can retrieve and contribute relevant data related to the cemeteries of ancient Thebes (located on the West Bank of modern Luxor, Egypt).
		It is even possible to perform sophisticated and complex queries, e.g., intersection and line-of-sight searches (e.g., draw a line anywhere across the necropolis and retrieve all tombs on or near that line according to any of the search parameters).
	www.cofc.edu /olgis/olgisdescr.html (631 words)

	The Theban Necropolis: Past, Present and Future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Theban Necropolis: Past, Present and Future Review: This volume was wonderful.
		Anyone with even the slightest interest in the Theban Necropolis would enjoy this volume.
		The other areas in the necropolis, such as Dra Abu el-Naga, the Assasif, Sheikh Abdel Qurna, and Deir el Medina, were the main focus in most of the articles.
	www.textkit.com /0_0714122475.html (223 words)

	journal of egyptian archaeology
		Mackay, E.J.H., «Proportion squares on tomb walls in the theban necropolis», n°7, JEA, London, 1921.
		Mackay, E.J.H., «The cutting and preparation of tomb chapels in the theban necropolis», n°7, JEA, London, 1921.
		Dodson, A., «Geoffrey Thorndike Martin Et Al., The Tomb Of Tia And Tia: A Royal Monument Of The Ramesside Period In The Memphite Necropolis», n°88, pp.
	2terres.hautesavoie.net /bibrevue/texte/bijea001.htm (3869 words)

	The Theban Necropolis
		It is immediately obvious to anyone who breaks away from the tourist trail and starts to explore Thebes that the Necropolis is in deep trouble.
		The amount of Rubbish is in danger of choking the Necropolis.
		I'm sure that the majority of the visitors to the area would gladly pay a little more if they could see it was being used to benefit the area and it's inhabitants.
	www.akhet.co.uk /help.htm (379 words)

	ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES IN EGYPT
		Portals To Eternity: The Necropolis at Terenouthis in Lower Egypt.
		The University of Michigan's Reconnaissance Expedition to Kom Abou Billou, the Necropolis of Ancient Terenouthis (March to April 1935).
		Theban Tombs Publication Project: The Tombs of Ahmose (no. 121) and Rây (no. 72).
	www.mysteries-in-stone.co.uk /archsites.htm (1473 words)

	Visiting The Necropolis \| Theban Necropolis \| Upper Egypt \| Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Spread across wadis and hills beyond the edge of the cultivated plain, the Theban Necropolis is too diffuse and complex to take in on a single visit.
		Making a full tour of the Necropolis is expensive - except for those with a student card, which entitles you to a 50 percent discount.
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	www.travelingo.org /africa/egypt/nile-valley/upper-egypt/theban-necropolis/guide/61229 (609 words)

	All's pharaoh in love and war
		he Theban Mapping Project documents the on-going dig at the Theban Necropolis.
		The Theban Necropolis lies south of Cairo on the West Bank of the Nile, across from the modern city of Luxor.
		Pobably the richest archaeological site on Earth, and one of the largest, it covers four square miles, and was the burial place of Egypt's New Kingdom pharaohs, noblemen, officials and priests.
	home.bawue.de /~wmwerner/english/egypt.html (434 words)

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