The classic historical account of one of the world's richest archaeological sites. For more than five hundred years, until about 1000 BC, the Valley of the Kings held a busy community of tomb workers, the limestone landscape was white with the debris of fresh excavation and all the known pharaohs of the Egyptian New Kingdom lay in their great stone sarcophagi. The Valley itself was then lost from the historical records for hundreds of years. Valley of the Kings, John Romer's first book originally published in 1981, tells two fascinating stories. The first is about the tombs of the ancient Egyptian kings, queens and nobles who were buried with pomp and extravagance between 1570 and 1085 BC. The second, equally compelling, is the story of the archaeologists and their hunt for the past.
- ISBN10 0805030271
- ISBN13 9780805030273
- Publish Date 1 February 1994 (first published October 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Henry Holt & Company
- Edition Owl Book ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 293
- Language English