The Amarna Royal Tombs Project (ARTP) is an archaeological expedition devoted to the
Amarna Period. It was established in 1998 to ascertain on the ground and in the ancient records the fate of the missing
Amarna royal dead, which were transferred to the
Valley of the Kings
The Valley of the Kings ( ar, وادي الملوك ; Late Coptic: ), also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings ( ar, وادي أبوا الملوك ), is a valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th ...
upon the abandonment of Amarna during the
18th Dynasty reign of the Pharaoh
Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun (, egy, twt-ꜥnḫ-jmn), Egyptological pronunciation Tutankhamen () (), sometimes referred to as King Tut, was an Egyptian pharaoh who was the last of his royal family to rule during the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty (ruled ...
.
Nicholas Reeves serves as the project director for the Amarna Royal Tombs Project.
Valley of the Kings
Archaeological projects
Archaeological expeditions
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