Millionaire and the Mummies Theodore Davis's Gilded Age in the Valley of the Kings

Name: Millionaire and the Mummies Theodore Davis's Gilded Age in the Valley of the Kings
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ISBN: 9781250026699

ISBN-10: 1250026695

ISBN-13: 9781250026699

Edition: 2013

Authors: John M. Adams

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The biography of Theodore Davis, rich American robber baron and famous early twentieth-century discoverer of eighteen tombs in Egypt's Valley of the KingsEgypt, The Valley of the Kings, 1905: An American robber baron peers through the hole he has cut in an ancient tomb wall and discovers the richest trove of golden treasure ever seen in Egypt. At the start of the twentieth century Theodore Davis was the most famous name in archaeology in the world; his career turned tomb-robbing and treasure-hunting into a science.Using six of Davis's most important discoveries - from the female Pharaoh Hatshepsuts' sarcophagus to the exquisite shawbti statuettes looted from the Egyptian Museum on January…

Book details

List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 6/25/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


A Note on Names


Tombs in the Valley of the Kings Discovered or Cleared




Thuyu's Golden Coffin



Rekhmire's Bronze Bowl



Hatshepsut's Quartzite Sarcophagus



Kiya's Alabaster Jar



Tawosret's Golden Earrings



Yuya's Vanished Shabtis


Notes


Bibliography


Index