Except for a few tourist infrastructures and a ribbon of asphalt that connects it to the banks of the Nile, the Valley of the Kings probably looks quite similar to what it did just a century ago, when Howard Carter made the fantastic discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.
Dusty hills, pebbles, sand and, dominating all this, the pyramidal silhouette of Mount al-Qurn which, despite its small 420 meters of altitude, gives a grandiose look to this lunar landscape.
When, on November 6, 1922, the Egyptologist sent his patron, Lord Carnarvon, the famous telegram by means of which he informed him of his discovery, he suspected that he would soon put the famous valley at the heart of world curiosity.
A hundred years later, after millions of tourists have trod on the same stones, breathed in the same dust and admired the same frescoes in the dampness of the tombs, what else can one expect from such a place?
For many Egyptologists…
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