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HTTP:: Valley of the Kings Endangered by Fracture Zones
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The Valley of the Kings, on the banks of the Nile River, opposite to the ancient city of Thebes, is the necropolis where all pharaohs and nobles from the New Kingdom (16th to 11th century BC) were entombed. For over 500 years, numerous funeral monuments were built at the location. Since it began being explored, the Valley has yielded phenomenal finds and has considerably furthered our knowledge of ancient Egypt. Now, the necropolis is endangered by the fact that most of the structures are built atop rock-fracture concentrations underground, e! Science News reports. When ancient Egyptian builders set out to construct the monuments, they might have purposefully built them atop these dangerous areas, because the limestone was a lot easier to carve at those locations. However, while that may have been appropriate thousands of years ago, it now poses a large number of challenges to curators, whose job is to keep the structures intact. “Previously, I noticed that some tomb !
entrances in the Valley of Kings, Luxor, Egypt, were aligned on fracture traces and their zones of fracture concentration,” Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) Department of Integrative Arts instructor in digital photography Katarin A. Parizek says. “From my observations, it seems that tomb builder...
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