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Tomb of Yuya and Thuya, the Glossary

The tomb of Yuya and Thuya, also known by its tomb number KV46, is the burial place of the ancient Egyptian noble Yuya and his wife Thuya, in the Valley of the Kings.^[1]

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1905 archaeological discoveries
Buildings and structures completed in the 14th century BC

Akhmim

Akhmim (أخميم,; Akhmimic,; Sahidic/Bohairic ϣⲙⲓⲛ) is a city in the Sohag Governorate of Upper Egypt.

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Amenhotep III

Amenhotep III (jmn-ḥtp(.w),; "Amun is satisfied"), also known as Amenhotep the Magnificent or Amenhotep the Great and Hellenized as Amenophis III, was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.

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Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall (1880 – 3 January 1934) was an English Egyptologist, stage designer, journalist and author whose works span the whole range from histories of Ancient Egypt through historical biographies, guide-books, popular novels, screenplays and lyrics.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Édouard Naville

Henri Édouard Naville (14 June 1844 – 17 October 1926) was a Swiss archaeologist, Egyptologist and Biblical scholar.

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Bes

Bes (also spelled as Bisu, Ⲃⲏⲥ), together with his feminine counterpart Beset, is an ancient Egyptian deity, likely of Kushite/Nubian or Nehesi C-Group culture origin worshipped as a protector of households and, in particular, of mothers, children, and childbirth.

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Book of the Dead

The Book of the Dead is the name given to an ancient Egyptian funerary text generally written on papyrus and used from the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BC) to around 50 BC.

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Cairo

Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.

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Canopic chest

Canopic chests are cases used by ancient Egyptians to contain the internal organs removed during the process of mummification.

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Canopic jar

Canopic jars are containers that were used by the ancient Egyptians during the mummification process, to store and preserve the viscera of their owner for the afterlife.

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Carnelian

Carnelian (also spelled cornelian) is a brownish-red mineral commonly used as a semiprecious stone.

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Cartonnage

Cartonnage or cartonage is a type of material used in ancient Egyptian funerary masks from the First Intermediate Period to the Roman era.

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Chariot

A chariot is a type of cart driven by a charioteer, usually using horses to provide rapid motive power.

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Cobb angle

The Cobb angle is a measurement of bending disorders of the vertebral column such as scoliosis and traumatic deformities.

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CT scan

A computed tomography scan (CT scan; formerly called computed axial tomography scan or CAT scan) is a medical imaging technique used to obtain detailed internal images of the body.

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Cursive hieroglyphs

Cursive hieroglyphs, or hieroglyphic book hand, are a form of Egyptian hieroglyphs commonly used for handwritten religious documents, such as the Book of the Dead.

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Discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun

The tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered in the Valley of the Kings in 1922 by excavators led by the Egyptologist Howard Carter, more than 3,300 years after Tutankhamun's death and burial. Tomb of Yuya and Thuya and discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun are Valley of the Kings.

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Edfu

Edfu (bḥdt, إدفو,,; also spelt Idfu, or in modern French as Edfou) is an Egyptian city, located on the west bank of the Nile River between Esna and Aswan, with a population of approximately 60,000 people.

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Egyptian finger and toe stall

Egyptian finger and toe stalls are pieces of gold jewelry used in Ancient Egypt to protect digits during burial.

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Egyptian Museum

The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the Egyptian Museum (al-Matḥaf al-Miṣrī, Egyptian Arabic) (also called the Cairo Museum), located in Cairo, Egypt, houses the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world.

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Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt

The Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XVIII, alternatively 18th Dynasty or Dynasty 18) is classified as the first dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt, the era in which ancient Egypt achieved the peak of its power.

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Eugénie de Montijo

Doña María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Palafox y Kirkpatrick, 19th Countess of Teba, 16th Marquise of Ardales (5 May 1826 – 11 July 1920), known as Eugénie de Montijo, was Empress of the French from her marriage to Napoleon III on 30 January 1853 until the Emperor was overthrown on 4 September 1870.

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Gaston Maspero

Sir Gaston Camille Charles Maspero (23 June 1846 – 30 June 1916) was a French Egyptologist and director general of excavations and antiquities for the Egyptian government.

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Gilding

Gilding is a decorative technique for applying a very thin coating of gold over solid surfaces such as metal (most common), wood, porcelain, or stone.

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Grafton Elliot Smith

Sir Grafton Elliot Smith (15 August 1871 – 1 January 1937) was an Australian-British anatomist, Egyptologist and a proponent of the hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory.

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Great Royal Wife

Great Royal Wife, or alternatively, Chief King's Wife (Ancient Egyptian: ḥmt nswt wrt) is the title that was used to refer to the principal wife of the pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, who served many official functions.

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Hatshepsut

Hatshepsut (BC) was the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Thutmose II and the fifth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, ruling first as regent, then as queen regnant from until (Low Chronology).

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In situ

In situ (often not italicized in English) is a Latin phrase that translates literally to "on site" or "in position." It can mean "locally", "on site", "on the premises", or "in place" to describe where an event takes place and is used in many different contexts.

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James Quibell

James Edward Quibell (11 November 1867 – 5 June 1935) was a British Egyptologist.

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KV20

KV20 is a tomb in the Valley of the Kings (Egypt). Tomb of Yuya and Thuya and KV20 are Valley of the Kings.

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KV3

Tomb KV3, located in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, was intended for the burial of an unidentified son of Pharaoh Ramesses III during the early part of the Twentieth Dynasty. Tomb of Yuya and Thuya and KV3 are Valley of the Kings.

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KV4

KV4 is a tomb in the Valley of the Kings (Egypt). Tomb of Yuya and Thuya and KV4 are Valley of the Kings.

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KV43

Tomb KV43 is the burial place of Thutmose IV, a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. Tomb of Yuya and Thuya and KV43 are buildings and structures completed in the 14th century BC and Valley of the Kings.

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Lapis lazuli

Lapis lazuli, or lapis for short, is a deep-blue metamorphic rock used as a semi-precious stone that has been prized since antiquity for its intense color.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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List of burials in the Valley of the Kings

The following is a list of burials in the Valley of the Kings, in Thebes (modern Luxor, Egypt) and nearby areas. Tomb of Yuya and Thuya and list of burials in the Valley of the Kings are Valley of the Kings.

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Mason's mark

A mason's mark is an engraved symbol often found on dressed stone in buildings and other public structures.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.

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Min (god)

Min (mnw), also called Menas, is an ancient Egyptian god whose cult originated in the predynastic period (4th millennium BCE).

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Natron

Natron is a naturally occurring mixture of sodium carbonate decahydrate (Na2CO3·10H2O, a kind of soda ash) and around 17% sodium bicarbonate (also called baking soda, NaHCO3) along with small quantities of sodium chloride and sodium sulfate.

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Nile

The Nile (also known as the Nile River) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.

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Organ (biology)

In a multicellular organism, an organ is a collection of tissues joined in a structural unit to serve a common function.

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Pharaoh

Pharaoh (Egyptian: pr ꜥꜣ; ⲡⲣ̄ⲣⲟ|Pǝrro; Biblical Hebrew: Parʿō) is the vernacular term often used for the monarchs of ancient Egypt, who ruled from the First Dynasty until the annexation of Egypt by the Roman Republic in 30 BCE.

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Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (Arthur William Patrick Albert; 1 May 185016 January 1942) was the seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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Sarcophagus

A sarcophagus (sarcophagi or sarcophaguses) is a coffin, most commonly carved in stone, and usually displayed above ground, though it may also be buried.

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Scoliosis

Scoliosis (scolioses) is a condition in which a person's spine has an irregular curve.

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Silvering

Silvering is the chemical process of coating a non-conductive substrate such as glass with a reflective substance, to produce a mirror.

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Sitamun

Sitamun, also Sitamen, Satamun; sꜣ.t-imn, "daughter of Amun" (c. 1370 BCE–unknown) was an ancient Egyptian princess and queen consort during the 18th Dynasty.

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Theodore M. Davis

Theodore M. Davis (May 7, 1838 – February 23, 1915) was an American lawyer and businessman.

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Throne of Princess Sitamun

The Throne of Princess Sitamun is an artefact from the tomb of Yuya and Thuya, which belonged to their granddaughter, Princess Sitamun, the daughter of Pharaoh Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye of the 18th Dynasty.

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Thutmose IV

Thutmose IV (sometimes read as Thutmosis or Tuthmosis IV, Thothmes in older history works in Latinized Greek; ḏḥwti.msi(.w) "Thoth is born") was the 8th Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, who ruled in approximately the 14th century BC.

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Thuya

Thuya (sometimes transliterated as Touiyou, Thuiu, Tuya, Tjuyu or Thuyu) was an Egyptian noblewoman and the mother of queen Tiye, and the wife of Yuya.

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Tiye

Tiye (c. 1398 BC – 1338 BC, also spelled Tye, Taia, Tiy and Tiyi) was the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III, mother of pharaoh Akhenaten and grandmother of pharaoh Tutankhamun; her parents were Yuya and Thuya.

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Tomb of Tutankhamun

The tomb of Tutankhamun, also known by its tomb number, KV62, is the burial place of Tutankhamun (reigned), a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, in the Valley of the Kings. Tomb of Yuya and Thuya and tomb of Tutankhamun are buildings and structures completed in the 14th century BC and Valley of the Kings.

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Usekh collar

As early as the Old Kingdom (c. 2670–2195 B.C.), Egyptian artisans fashioned images of deities, kings, and mortals wearing broad collars made of molded tubular and teardrop beads.

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Ushabti

The ushabti (also called shabti or shawabti, with a number of variant spellings) was a funerary figurine used in ancient Egyptian funerary practices.

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Valley of the Kings

The Valley of the Kings (وادى الملوك), also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings (label), is an area in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the Eighteenth Dynasty to the Twentieth Dynasty, rock-cut tombs were excavated for pharaohs and powerful nobles under the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Yuya_and_Thuya

Also known as KV46, Tomb of Yuya and Tjuyu.

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1905 archaeological discoveries

Buildings and structures completed in the 14th century BC

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