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    Victor Clement Georges Philippe Loret (1 September 1859 – 3 February 1946) was a French Egyptologist. His father, Clément Loret, was a professional organist...
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    it was used as a cache for other royal mummies. It was discovered by Victor Loret in March 1898. It has a dog's leg shape, typical of the layout of early...
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    discovered within tomb KV35 in the Valley of the Kings by archaeologist Victor Loret in 1898. The mummy also has been given the designation KV35YL ("YL" for...
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    location lost. It was rediscovered and first excavated in 1898 under Victor Loret. One of the first tombs to be dug in the Valley, it was cut high in the...
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    were found in a side chamber of the tomb of Amenhotep II in KV35 by Victor Loret. One was an older woman and the other two were a young boy who died at...
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    in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt. Rediscovered on 30 March 1899 by Victor Loret in his second season in the Valley of the Kings, the tomb was found to...
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    to KV35 during the reign of Pinedjem I, and was discovered in 1898 by Victor Loret. His mummy is currently kept in the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization...
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    first eastern chapel). The first major translation into French was by Victor Loret in 1882, under the title Les fêtes d'Osiris au mois de Khoiak. However...
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    in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, was the last tomb to be found by Victor Loret, and has not been excavated or examined. The original owner of this tomb...
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    sign. Victor Loret, a nineteenth-century Egyptologist, argued that "mirror" was the sign's original meaning. A problem with this argument, which Loret acknowledged...
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  • Clément Loret (10 October 1833 – 14 February 1909) was an organist, music educator, and composer of Belgian origin, French naturalized. Clément Loret was...
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    Amenhotep II and mother of Thutmose IV. The tomb was discovered in 1898 by Victor Loret. It is an undecorated tomb and runs back some 40 metres into the mountainside...
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    Egyptology in 1879. In 1975, Egyptological studies found a home in the Victor Loret Institute of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)...
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    later 22nd Dynasty were interred. Although the tomb was excavated by Victor Loret in 1899, no report was published. Excavations in 2014 revealed the remains...
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    with halakhic aspects of the citron. The Egyptologist and archaeologist Victor Loret said he had identified it depicted on the walls of the botanical garden...
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  • and a main chamber with two adjoining rooms. KV33 was discovered by Victor Loret in 1898. The small tomb was open to visitors in the early 1900s when...
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  • Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 2, Murray, pp. 915a–916a Victor Loret (1887), "Le kyphi, parfum sacré des anciens égyptiens", Journal asiatique...
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    mummies in the mummy cache found in the tomb of Amenhotep II (KV35) by Victor Loret. His mummy was taken to Cairo and eventually unwrapped by G. Elliott...
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    showed that there are no hidden chambers. In 1898, French archeologist Victor Loret found two female mummies among those cached inside the tomb of Amenhotep...
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    Baillet and Georges Bénédite in early 1888, and finally Victor Loret in 1898 to 1899. Loret added a further 16 tombs to the list, and explored several...
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    was later moved to the mummy cache in KV35, where it was discovered by Victor Loret in 1898. An examination of his mummy conducted by Grafton Elliot Smith...
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    them are now in the Egyptian collection of the Institut d'Egyptologie Victor Loret in Lyon. The official sale of antiquities initiated by Maspero proved...
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    by the early Egyptologist James Burton in the 1820s or 1830s, and by Victor Loret in 1898. It was mapped in the 1980s by the Theban Mapping Project. The...
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    Bank by this time. The mummy of Ramesses V was recovered in 1898 by Victor Loret in KV35. It was unwrapped and examined by G.E. Smith in 1905, and showed...
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    his original sarcophagus when the tomb was discovered in March 1898 by Victor Loret. The tomb also housed a mummy cache containing several New Kingdom pharaohs...
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  • Jadwiga Lipińska (Polish, 1932–2009) Jens Lieblein (Norwegian, 1827–1911) Victor Loret (French, 1859–1946) Adam Łukaszewicz (Polish, born 1950) Arthur Cruttenden...
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    738861; 32.599750 Location East Valley of the Kings Discovered March 1899 Excavated by Victor Loret (1899) Howard Carter (1919) ← Previous KV37 Next → KV39...
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    were cut to the east and south. It was discovered around 1900 by either Victor Loret or Macarious and Andraos but was not fully examined. It was excavated...
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    Eighteenth and Nineteenth Dynasties, where it lay until discovered by Victor Loret in 1898. For the 18th dynasty, the mummy shows an unusually heavy use...
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  • Amenhotep II was discovered in his original sarcophagus in March 1898, by Victor Loret in the KV35 tomb in the Valley of the Kings. The tomb of Nefertari, QV66...
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