The Lost Tombs of Thebes: Life in Paradise

by Zahi Hawass

In southern Egypt, not far from the Valley of the Kings, lie hundreds of unique and wonderfully decorated tombs from the New Kingdom belonging to the people who served the pharaohs. Many of these tombs had been lost to the eyes of the world - closed and visited only by scholars. Others had been hidden under modern villages, only to emerge in the past few years, when a number of hitherto unrecorded tombs have been discovered and rescued from oblivion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500051593
• ISBN13: 9780500051597
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 5.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 10.3" x 13.7"