About
Kent Weeks was only eight years old when he fell under the spell of ancient Egypt. As unlikely as it must have seemed for a boy growing up in the Pacific Northwest, he dreamed of becoming an Egyptologist, and was encouraged in his interest by sympathetic teachers. At age 12 he began to correspond with experts in the field, and followed their advice to educate himself as widely as possible. Barely out of college, he joined an expedition to rescue precious relics of Egyptian civilization before they were submerged under the waters diverted by the great Aswan Dam. Now a Professor of Egyptology at American University in Cairo, Kent Weeks is the founder and director of the Theban Mapping Project, a comprehensive survey of the tombs, temples and monuments of the Theban Necropolis, the sprawling "city of the dead" that lies across the Nile from the ancient city of Thebes. In 1995, Dr. Weeks made one of the greatest archeological discoveries of the century, a vast monument, unseen by human eye
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