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Review by: MandyApgar
This was disappointing in a very odd way. Two, actually. One - the book is meant to be (obviously from the title) a record of Theban royal tombs yet not always are royal tombs the subject, and not a lot of detail is gone into for certain key pharaohs. The problem with the Valley of the Kings is that, due to a combination of butthead tourists and the area's placement at the crosshairs of two tectonic faults, not all the tombs are visible today and the off limits list includes many of the greatest rulers. So I would've thought that Hawass, as director of antiquities nonetheless, would have included more of say Sethi, Ramesses II, heck, even Tut - and his tomb is teeny as anything. But not so, as such personages are not given as much print. The second problem is that several reliefs and scenes are presented in gatefold format and it got irritating when several times a chapter I'd have to unfold several large pages when simply printing it smaller across two would have sufficed.
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