Treasures of the Pharaohs.TREASURES OF THE PHARAOHS DELIA PEMBERTON WITH CONSULTANT JOANN FLETCHER Dr. Joann Fletcher is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York and Consultant Egyptologist for Harrogate Museums and Arts. She has undertaken excavation work in Egypt, Yemen, and the UK, and has examined mummies both on-site and in The ancient city of Thebes, known today as Luxor, was the center of a royal burial ground The Royal Burial Ground is a cemetery used by the British Royal Family. It surrounds the Royal Mausoleum on the Frogmore estate in the Home Park at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire. for Egyptian kings and queens for some 500 years. The region around Thebes, known as the Valley of the Kings, houses the most magnificent tombs of ancient Egypt, brimming with ancient mummies and artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. . Each pharaoh was commemorated with a funerary fu·ner·ar·y adj. Of or suitable for a funeral or burial. [Latin f  ner temple erected in this region. Among them are Hatshepsut's terraced temple at Deir el-Bahri and Rameses II's Ramesseum. Pemberton explores each of these monuments, documenting their contents and what they reveal about how Thebes developed culturally and politically over the millennia. Lushly illustrated with hundreds of photographs, Treasures of the Pharaohs chronicles the reign of each king from the time of the New Kingdom 3,500 years ago to the era the Roman Empire. Chronicle Bks, 2004, 224 p., color photos/illus., paperback, $19.95.
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