Improvise, Adapt, Overcome.

In the Valley of the Kings, Horemheb commissioned a magnificent tomb. Artistically innovative, it has one foot in the past and one in the future. This tomb introduced a new style of decoration, developed on recent trends, and reshaped the model of royal burials…

  • Date: c. 1323 BCE.
  • Intro and break music: Keith Zizza.
  • Outro music and interludes: Luke Chaos.
  • Learn more about the tomb of Horemheb at the Theban Mapping Project.
  • See Prof. Geoffrey Martin’s description of the tomb at YouTube.
  • Banner: Unfinished scene from the tomb of Horemheb. Hornung 1971.

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Bibliography

  • T. M. Davis, The Tombs of Harmhabi and Toutânkhamanou (1912).
  • E. Hornung, Das Grab des Haremhab im Tal der Könige (1971).
  • Geoffrey Martin, Haremhab, Pharaoh and Conqueror: New Investigations in His Royal Tomb in the Valley of the Kings (2012). YouTube.
  • ‘Horemheb | Theban Mapping Project’, https://thebanmappingproject.com/tombs/kv-57-horemheb.