Dr. Kent R. Weeks (b. 1941) is one of the world's foremost Egyptologists.

He was born in the town of Everett, Washington, United States, where, he claims, he decided he wanted to be an Egyptologist at the age of eight. He studied anthropology at University of Washington in Seattle, from where he obtained a master's degree. He visited Egypt for the first time in 1963 and was active in digs in Nubia associated with relocation work necessitated by the building of the Aswan Dam and the flooding of the Nile Valley to create Lake Nasser. In 1970 he earned a doctorate in Egyptology from Yale University.

In 1978, Weeks devised and launched the Theban Mapping Project – an exceedingly ambitious plan to photograph and map every temple and tomb in the Theban Necropolis. One of the most important achievements of the Project was its 1995 discovery of the identity, and vast dimensions, of KV5, the tomb of the sons of Ramesses II in the Valley of the Kings.

He has been a professor of Egyptology at Cairo's American University since 1988. He is married to Susan Weeks, also an archaeologist and a gifted artist.

Publications

• Atlas of the Valley of the Kings: The Theban Mapping Project
• The Lost Tomb, 1998
• The Illustrated Guide to Luxor and the Valley of the Kings
• The Valley of the Kings: The Tombs and the Funerary of Thebes West, (editor)

External links

• The Theban Mapping Project