Talk:Valley of the Kings
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The Robbery of Treasure
The validity the the following paragraph is questionable:
- Almost all of the tombs have been ransacked except for Tutankhamun’s. King Tutankhamun was a minor king and other kings would have had 10 times the treasures.
- When ransacking the robbers often torched the tombs in order to sift through everything faster, picking out the gold and other treasures. If you were caught you were torched and impaled.
It was added by an Anon who contributed only twice, both times to this article. Possible invalidity roots in:
- the extreme precise and specific quantity "would have had 10 times the treasures": Doesn't the whole number, 10, seem a bit inconvenient?
- The tombs have no windows, and it was before lightbulbs, so torches had to be used. It was probably the only way. And it was mainly for lighting, not necessarily for doing "everything faster, picking out the gold and other treasures".
- "If you were caught you were torched and impaled". I assume the writer meant by the falling stones in the tomb. But this sentence is ambiguous in that it could also mean the robbers would've been "torched and impaled" by the authority.
I have removed parts and modified others. Improve them if you will. --Menchi 06:50 16 Jun 2003 (UTC)
I agree with your changes. I have further changed the statement that "Almost all of the tombs have been ransacked except for Tutankhamun’s", since it is false. Howard Carter himself clearly documents the ample evidence he found of robbers having entered the tomb. What was different here was that the robbers were either disturbed, or apprehended. Either way, the tomb was re-sealed, but the contents were in total disarray.
Fab 21:39, 5 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Wadi
I don't really know Arabic, but isn't "wadi" the term for a dried-out river bed turned into a sort of canyon? Is that really what the Valley of the Kings is? I've found the name Biban el Muluk (not sure about the spelling) in the article on the subject in Nationalencyklopedin's internet edition.
Which one is correct? - karmosin 16:18, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)
- Wadi el-Muluk would be a direct cognate of the English "Valley of the Kings", but I have no idea whether that's just a back translation or is authentically used by the locals alongside Biban el-Maluk (which they certainly do use, and where Biban means 'gates'). So, the answer is "I don't know", but maybe this'll bring the article up on the watchlist of someone more knowledgeable. Albeit three months after you asked. –Hajor 02:32, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
