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The millionaire and the mummies : Theodore Davis's Gilded Age in the Valley of the Kings / John M. Adams.
Penn Museum Library - Egyptian Collection DT76.9.D38 .A33 2013
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection DT76.9.D38 A33 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adams, John M., 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Davis, Theodore M., 1837-1915.
- Davis, Theodore M.
- Archaeologists--United States--Biography.
- Archaeologists.
- Tombs.
- Egyptologists.
- United States.
- Egypt--Valley of the Kings.
- Egyptologists--United States--Biography.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt--Valley of the Kings.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Tombs--Egypt--Valley of the Kings.
- Valley of the Kings (Egypt)--Antiquities.
- Valley of the Kings (Egypt).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 363 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- The biography of Theodore Davis, a rich American robber baron who, in the early 20th century discovered 18 tombs in Egypt's Valley of the Kings.
- Contents:
- Thuyu's golden coffin
- Rekhmire's bronze bowl
- Hatshepsut's quartzite sarcophagus
- Kiya's alabaster jar
- Tawosret's golden earrings
- Yuya's vanished shabtis.
- Tombs in the Valley of the kings discovered or cleared by Theodore M. Davis
- Thuyu's golden coffin
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-345) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Schaffer fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781250026699
- 1250026695
- OCLC:
- 811597749
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