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Hardcover in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. 330 pages. Bibliographical references, Index. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs, in addition to line drawings. First edition, first printing with full number line. In this tale of the rediscovery of KV5, the massive tomb of Ramesses II’s sons in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, the author merges personal autobiography with scientific archeology. A highly readable story of discovery which has lent itself to comparisons to a real-life “Raiders of the Lost Ark”. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.