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Genre/Form: | Handbooks and manuals Handbooks, manuals, etc Guides, manuels, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kent R Weeks; Nigel J Hetherington; Dina Bakhoum; Theban Mapping Project; American University in Cairo Press; World Monuments Fund (New York, N.Y.) |
ISBN: | 9789774166082 9774166086 |
OCLC Number: | 952181251 |
Notes: | "A publication of the Theban Mapping Project; World Monuments Fund"--Preliminary page |
Description: | ix, 264 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Preface 1 -- Introduction to the Site -- Site Definition -- Historical Development of the Valley of the Kings 2 -- Current Risk Factors -- The Natural Environment -- Human Activity -- Summary of Risk Factors in the Valley of the Kings 3 -- Tourism and the Valley of the Kings -- Tourism in Egypt -- Tourism in Luxor -- Tourism in the Valley of the Kings 4 -- Stakeholder Surveys -- Stakeholder Survey Stage One: Valley of the Kings Site Survey -- Stakeholder Survey Stage Two: Online Survey 5 -- Valley of the Kings Condition Survey -- Current and Recent Archaeological Intervention in the Valley of the Kings -- Previous Work by the Theban Mapping Project -- Current Tomb Condition Reports -- Tomb Environmental Monitoring 6 -- Valley of the Kings Infrastructure -- The Visitor Experience and the Valley of the Kings -- Roads and Pathways to the Valley of the Kings -- Types of Transport -- Vehicle Parking -- Vendors' Area -- Visitors Center -- Tramline and Road from Visitors Center to Valley of the Kings -- Security Entrance and Camera Rules -- Toilets -- Shelters and Rest Stops -- Tomb Interiors -- Site Utilities -- Site Fabric -- Summary of Proposals and Status as of 2012 7 -- Visitor Management in the Valley of the Kings -- Carrying Capacity -- Carrying Capacity of Tombs in the Valley of the Kings -- Ticketing Procedures -- Visitor Experience in the Valley of the Kings -- Summary of Proposals 8 -- Site Management at the Valley of the Kings -- The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) -- Site Management and Cultural Resource Management Training -- Emergency and Disaster Planning -- Site Maintenance -- Site Management Information Systems -- Summary of Proposals -- Notes -- References |
Series Title: | Publications of the Theban Mapping Project |
Responsibility: | Kent Weeks, Nigel Hetherigton ; with a Kings Valley condition survey by Dina Bakhoum |
Abstract:
Art, Egyptian; Egypt; valley of the Kings
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