Five Years' Explorations at Thebes; A Record of Work Done 1907-1911

by George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert

Publisher: London: Frowde Publication date: 1912 Subjects: Thebes (Egypt: Extinct city) Egypt -- Antiquities Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

78 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 2004

About the author

George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, DL, styled Lord Porchester until 1890, was an English peer and aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

Reviews

[Sven · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a primarily an academic text describing excavations made near Thebes, Egypt, around 1910. The authors, Lord Carnarvon, Howard Carter (both of King Tut fame), et al, give short, to-the-point descriptions of their various excavations and discoveries. No analysis is offered to place their discoveries in the greater context of what was then known about ancient Egypt.

Unless you are an avid Egyptologist, or really enjoy late Victorian/Edwardian academic texts, you can probably pass on this book.

If you are interested, a free etext is available from Project Gutenberg (which is the version I read): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48382