Prince Khaemwaset was among the oldest sons of Pharaoh Ramesses III. His mummified remains were entombed in tomb QV44 in the Valley of the Queens in Luxor. In the past few years, I have worked on a website describing the murals and hieroglyphs depicted in the tomb. My in creating this website was to reproduce the extraordinary beauty and craftmanship of the murals, which have been incredibly well preserved. The website gives a detailed description of the whole tomb and shows all the murals in tomb QV44. All hieroglyphs in the tomb have been translated in English. The completed website can found at: https://tomb-khaemwaset-gaspard.info
Kind regards, khaemwaset
Posted by -Just Call Me Jari- (Member # 14451) on :
Are you the creator of the website?
Posted by khaemwaset (Member # 23172) on :
Sure. I've done an exploration of the tomb QV44 between 2004 and 2013. Building the website between 2014 and 2019. Website is online since 1/12/2019. Kind regards.
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
Wow! I appreciate your work. I take it you were involved in the Valley of the Kings digital restoration project by Discovery/BBC or with Kent Weeks Theban Mapping Project.
Posted by the lioness, (Member # 17353) on :
Posted by khaemwaset (Member # 23172) on :
@Djehuti (=Egyptian word for the god Thoth) Thanks for your appreciation of my website about QV44.
Kind regards. Khaemwaset
Posted by khaemwaset (Member # 23172) on :
@the lioness, Thanks for your appreciation of my website about the tomb of Khaemwaset. I think that your comment is not correct. INFORMATION gives not only information about the prince. The URL of all photos is given for each photo on a website. You are right when you say that you cannot read the URL of PIC 24. PIC 24 is not on a website and that is the reason there is no URL. 24 is a photo I have taken in the tomb. The real name of khaemwaset on this forum is Gaspard Van Haver. That is the reason I've put....gaspard.info in the domain name of my website. I think that all headings on my website are correct.
Kind regards. Khaemwaset
Posted by Tukuler (Member # 19944) on :
Fine work on its own I find it also useful w/2 other sites.
I don't know how they did it but someone took a neon&glass photo w/o glare of Book of Gates 4:5 It was an Alamy Stock Photo
Maybe they used your technique to refine the shot?
Posted by khaemwaset (Member # 23172) on :
@Tukuler Thanks for your appreciation of my website. It is the result of 12 years research !! I've seen the Alamy photo. Alamy gives a lot of money to the guardians of the tombs for taking photos. They correct all their photos with photoshop and ask a very high price. for their photos.
Posted by khaemwaset (Member # 23172) on :
@Tukuler In the Egyptian tombs are placed thick glass panels to protect the murals. All photos taken in the tombs show disturbing reflections and superpositions. It is necessary to photoshop all the photos. Photoshopping all the photos taken in an Egyptian tomb must done by a professional photoshopper and is expensive!!
Posted by Tukuler (Member # 19944) on :
Yes, I read as much at your website. Glass and neon lighting mars photos, right? I have perused ~75% of the pages spending the most time with the burial chamber particularly. The natural preconservation preservation of this tomb is amazing esp considering its reuse.
Posted by khaemwaset (Member # 23172) on :
@Tukuler You are correct saying that the preservation of the murals-after 3500 years- is amazing considering that the tomb is reused. The beauty of the murals in QV44 was the reason that I've costructed a website of that tomb.
Posted by khaemwaset (Member # 23172) on :
Dear members, May I ask the opinion of those members who have visited my website?
Thanks! khaemwaset
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
^ To be honest it took some time getting used to navigate the site. It helped a lot to open a map of the tomb in one tab as a reference. Other than that it's an excellent site. It would be better if you had a virtual map of the tomb where your can click on each section on the map and it will open a webpage with corresponding photos. Of course such an update will take even more time and effort to do. This is not to take away from your accomplishments, you have very high quality photos from all the murals of the tomb it seems.
According to your website, the murals are what attracted you this project. Do you have any interest in making a web project for other royal figures? Nefertari of the 20th dynasty has an equally beautiful tomb in QV66. What do you find personally interesting about Khaemwaset himself, since historically he didn't seem as important as brothers, or father, or even his ancestral namesake of the 19th dynasty.
Posted by khaemwaset (Member # 23172) on :
@Djehuti Thanks for your comment and appreciation of my website about QV44. I agree that navigating in my website is difficult at a first visit. I've constructed this website because the murals are preserved after 3500 years and are beautiful. The tomb of Khaemwaset is described in a book of Hassanein en Nelson. In that book the murals are in black-with and that gives a totally different vieuw. In the book of Hassanein and Nelson many hieroglyphs are wrong translated. Many Egyptologists give wrong information about Prince Khaemwaset and that was the reason to give correct information about the prince on my website. Therefore I've done research in the Museo Egizio in Turin,Italy. My information about Khaemwaset is correct. I have not interest in making a website about QV66. Thierry Bendeitter on Osirisnet has made a website of QV66. Since years many people are busy with the restoration of QV66 but today the greatest part of QV66 need to be restored.
Posted by khaemwaset (Member # 23172) on :
I think that the most important when constructing a website about an Egyptian tomb is not to give a complete description of the different parts of the tomb. You can read a description of a tomb in many books or on websites. The most important is the fact that the murals are good preserved in order to give a virtual visit of a tomb. In QV66 90% of the murals has been lost. I have spent years to take good photos of the whole tomb of Prince Khaemwaset.
Posted by khaemwaset (Member # 23172) on :
My website about QV44 is not constructed because Prince Khaemwaset was an important person in the the 20th dynasty. She's constructed to show the beauty of the preserved murals in the whole tomb. During my exploration of QV44 I've talk with the famous Egyptologist Kent Weeks. He agreed with me that the ORIGINAL murals in QV44 are of an extraordinary quality. Please look once again @ https://tomb-khaemwaset-gaspard.info
Thanks.
Posted by khaemwaset (Member # 23172) on :
I have updated my website about the tomb of Prince Khaemwaset (QV44). The hyperlinks are OK now and the annoying advertisements are blocked. You can see the updated website on https://tomb-khaemwaset-gaspard.info Thanks for visiting my updated website about the tomb of Prince Khaemwaset in the Valley of the Queens in Luxor/Egypt
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
I appreciate it Khaemwaset!
Posted by khaemwaset (Member # 23172) on :
Once again I've updated my website about the tomb of Prince Khaemwaset (QV44). The hyperlinks are OK now and the annoying advertisements are blocked. You can see the updated website on https://tomb-khaemwaset-gaspard.info