Kent R Weeks

Biographic Data

ID98300
NAMEKent R Weeks
GIVEN NAMESKent R
FAMILY NAMEWeeks
SIGNATUREWEEKS K R
AFFILIATIONSAmerican University in Cairo
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS21
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT5
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX1

  • Damnatio Memoriae in the Valley of the Kings

    Richard H Wilkinson, Kent R WeeksBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of the Valley…2016

    The erasure of all records and sometimes the tangible works of an individual from history was not only the result of criminal or heretical acts on the part of the individual attacked, but also might result from the desire of an individual’s successors to discount the targeted individual’s legitimacy and to enhance their own legitimation at the personal or dynastic level. The tombs of individuals thus sanctioned by damnatio were thus targets for v…

  • Tomb Recording

    Adam Lowe, Richard H Wilkinson et al.BOOKThe Oxford Handbook of the Valley…2016

  • Other Tomb Goods

    C Price, Richard H Wilkinson et al.BOOKThe Oxford Handbook of the Valley…2016

    The tombs in the Valley of the Kings were intended to contain a range of objects to assist the king’s journey to and survival in the afterlife. Tutankhamun’s almost intact tomb (KV 62) gives the most complete picture of one royal tomb group, but fragments of the same types of objects, and depictions of objects in wall scenes, survive from other tombs. The king was provided with many of the same items as contemporary private individuals: statues d…

  • The Valley of the Kings in the Lives of Modern Egyptians

    Kees Van Der Spek, Richard H Wilkinson et al.BOOKThe Oxford Handbook of the Valley…2016

    Since the early nineteenth century, archaeological fieldwork in the Valley of the Kings has relied on the manual labor provided by the villagers of nearby Qurna, the Qurnawi. Adopting a social anthropological perspective, this chapter considers the royal valley as integrated in the history and continuing social life of its nearby resident community. Qurnawi experience the Theban Necropolis as a real presence in their lives, bestowing a sense of c…

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Valley of the Kings

    Kent Weeks, Richard H Wilkinson et al.BOOKThe Oxford Handbook of the Valley…2016

    "The royal necropolis of New Kingdom Egypt, known as the Valley of the Kings (KV), is one of the most important--and celebrated--archaeological sites in the world. Located on the west bank of the Nile river, about three miles west of modern Luxor, the valley is home to more than sixty tombs, all dating to the second millennium BCE. The most famous of these is the tomb of Tutankhamun, first discovered by Howard Carter in 1922. Other famous pharaoh…

  • Thebes, West

    Open AccessKent R WeeksCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Thebes is one of the greatest archaeological sites in the world, with thousands of tombs, temples, shrines, dwellings, work stations, and other remains that span over a hundred thousand years of human activity.

  • Middle East Section: Changing Egyptian Archaeology

    Open AccessDonald Powell Cole, Kent R WeeksARTICLEAnthropology News2003

  • Kv 5: A Preliminary Report on the Excavation of the Tomb of the Sons of Rameses II in the Valley of the Kings

    Richard Wilkinson, Richard H Wilkinson et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Research…2002

    The discovery in 1995 that a long-ignored doorway in the Valley of the Kings was actually the entrance to the largest tomb ever found in Egypt made headlines around the world. Called KV 5, it contains over 150 corridors and chambers, and was used as a family mausoleum for several sons of the New Kingdom pharaoh, Ramesses II. This preliminary report is the first comprehensive, technical publication on the work of the Theban Mapping Project in the …

  • The Canonical Tradition in Ancient Egyptian Art. Whitney Davis

    Open AccessKent R WeeksARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1991

  • Egyptian Life

    Kent R Weeks, Miriam SteadARTICLEThe International Journal of…1989

  • Egypt Before the Pharaohs: The Prehistoric Foundations of Egyptian Civilization

    Kent R Weeks, Michael A HoffmanARTICLEJournal of the American Research…1980

  • Food: The Gift of Osiris

    Kent R Weeks, Malcolm Mosher et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Research…1979

  • The Riddle of the Pyramids . Kurt Mendelssohn

    Kent R WeeksARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies1977

  • La Médecine égyptienne au temps des pharaons . Ange-Pierre Leca

    Kent R WeeksARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies1976

  • X-Raying the Pharaohs

    Hans Goedicke, James E Harris et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Research…1974

    A simple project, the right men, time and the funds could hardly fail to result success, you would think. dentition of ancient Nubians, its relation to diet and health, and such genetic links as the teeth can afford, have lain the Nile Valley for generations and had already had some attention from Elliott Smith, the English anatomist. He did, fact, X-ray the mummified body of Thutmosis IV, but this isolated study required expansion, and 1966 the …

  • A History of Egyptian Archaeology

    Kent R Weeks, Fred Gladstone BrattonARTICLEJournal of the American Research…1973

  • The Classical Christian Townsite at Arminna West

    Joe D Seger, Kent R WeeksARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1973

  • Preliminary Report on the First Two Seasons at Hierakonpolis: Part II: The Early Dynastic Palace

    Kent R WeeksARTICLEJournal of the American Research…1971Cited by: 1

    Decouverte a Hierakonpolis d'un exemple d'architecture en facade de palais localise dans le coin nord-est du temple de la 18e dynastie. Cela montre que durant le dynastique ancien l'utilisation de ce type de facade n'appartient pas qu'a l'architecture funeraire mais apparait dans d'autres constructions

  • The Physiological Basis of the Fine Arts: A Theory

    Ian Tattersall, Kent R Weeks et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1971

  • Most Ancient Egypt

    Kent R Weeks, William C Hayes et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1970

  • Architecture in Ancient Egypt and the Near East. Alexander Badawy

    Open AccessKent R WeeksARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1968