How many Egyptian Tomb Discoveries have been made in the Valley of the Kings?
There are 63 tombs which have been discovered in the Valley of the Kings belonging to the Pharaohs and leading dignitaries. History of Egyptian Tomb Discoveries The table below provides a list of important royal Egyptian tomb discoveries and the names of the Egyptologists who excavated them. But before the modern excavations people were aware of the tombs. In 57BC a Greek historian called Diodorus Siculus wrote about the tombs in the Valley of the Kings. The tombs were visited by the Greeks and the Romans who left graffiti on the walls of the tombs in Greek and Latin. The fall of the Roman Empire led to many hundreds of years of silence regarding the tombs and the next documented evidence is by a Jesuit priest called Claude Sicard who rediscovered the Valley of the Kings between 1708 and 1712. A plan of 18 tombs on the site was then drawn by an English clergyman called Richard Pococke in 1734. James Bruce, a Scottish Egyptologist, explored the tomb of Ramses III in 1769. In 1798 Napole
