It will at once be noticed that the decoration of the
royal tombs is of a totally different type from that with which we have become
familiar in the mastabas of the Old Kingdom, and the rock-tombs of the Middle
Kingdom, or that which we shall shortly see in the mortuary chapels of the
Theban nobles .
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Historical notes .. The most important tombs at The Valley of the Kings .. Part ( 4 )
With the story of the finding of the tomb of Tutankhamun
the modern history of the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings closes for the
present, though we have no warrant for the belief that the interruption is more
than a temporary one .
Historical notes about discovery some tombs at The Valley of the Kings .. Part ( 3 )
A few years later ( 1898 ) Victor Loret, acting on
information secretly supplied from native sources, discovered the tomb of
Amenhotep II, which is now No. 35 in the valley . It had been plundered ;
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