Early Western Civilization, Egyptian Tomb

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the best known
of all the pharaohs, the ruler believed to have been Moses' nemesis in
the book of Exodus.

The Valley of the Kings, in which Tomb 5 is located, is just
across the Nile River from Luxor, Egypt. It is never exactly been off the
beaten track. Tourism has been brisk in the valley for millenniums:
graffiti scrawled on tomb walls proves that Greek and Roman travelers
stopped here to gaze at the wall paintings and hieroglyphics that were
already old long before the birth of Christ. Archaeologists have been
coming for centuries too. Napoleon brought his own team of excavators when
he invaded in 1798, and a series of expeditions in 19th and early 20th
centuries uncovered one tomb after another. A total of 61 burial spots had
been found by the time the British explorer Howard Carter opened the
treasure-laden tomb of King Tutankhamun in 1922.

Britain's James Burton had burrowed into the site of Tomb 5 in
1820, and decided that there was nothing inside. A dismissive Carter ...

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B.C. to
1212 B. C., Ramesses could have filled an ancient edition of the Guinness
Book of Records all by himself: he built more temples, obelisks and
monuments; took more wives(eight, not counting concubines) and claimed to
have sired more children (as many as 162, by some accounts) than any
other pharaoh in history. He presided over an empire that stretched from
present-day Libya to Iraq in the east, as far north as Turkey and
southward into the Sudan.

Today, historians know a great deal about Ramesses and the customs
of his day. However, the newly explored tomb suddenly presents scholars
with all sort of puzzles to ponder. For one thing, many of the tombs in
the Valley of the Kings ...

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