The Abbot Papyrus role, named after its purchaser, describes the area exactly by pinpointing two local markers but 3,100 years later Archaeologists are still arguing about what was meant by the two markers. On the papyrus role the committee noted at the time that the grave of Amenhotep I and eight other tombs were sealed, with only one of them having been robbed. Today they are in the Egyptian Museum of Cairo although various components of the grave have cropped up all over the world. Egyptologist Thiem realizes she will not find an completely undamaged grave and does not expect to come across a second Tutenkhamun treasure either. She takes a realistic view of the dig.
Archeology is all about the joy of finding the shard that is still missing.
Various experts agree that Thiem has written an excellent essay on the puzzle of the gravesite. But doubts remain. I is at a different site at Dra Abu el Naga. There at the entrance to the famous Valley of the Kings the German Archaeological Institute was engaged in a lengthy dig. Headed by Scientific Director Daniel Polz the Germans toiled from 1993 until last year to uncover a huge upland gravesite.