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pp. 330, b/w photographs, small price sticker residue on back lower part of dust jacket, “Weeks also points out what his discovery may tell us about the powerful, red-haired pharaoh who ruled ancient Egypt for 67 years (1279-1212 BC), including the possibility that he was the pharaoh of Exodus. He elaborates upon his profession’s risks, from excavations in narrow, debris-filled and claustraphobic surroundings to working under the gunfire of terrorist attacks. And he reminds us that his discovery by no means brings Egyptology to a conclusion: “Every generation of Egyptologists asks different questions of its data and data are a finite resource. We will leave parts of KV5 undug so that archaeologists of the future, armed with new questions and new excavation techniques, can seek new answers to old questions and to others we haven’t even dreamed of.”