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 upon the abandonment of Amarna during the
18th Dynasty reign of the Pharaoh
Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun or Tutankhamen, (; ), was an Egyptian pharaoh who ruled during the late Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt. Born Tutankhaten, he instituted the restoration of the traditional polytheistic form of an ...
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Nicholas Reeves serves as the project director for the Amarna Royal Tombs Project.
References
Valley of the Kings
Archaeological projects
Archaeological expeditions
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