Tue 20 Jun 2006
The Theban Necropolis (wikipedia), collectively, is an area on the West bank of the Nile, near modern Luxor, which is composed of the the Royal Necropolis, which is the Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens, Mortuary Temples, and the Tombs of the Nobles.
The Theban Necropolis Online GIS is an ESRI ArcIMS served database which contains a well attributed dataset for the Tombs of the Nobles section of the Necropolis. Not as fancy as the Theban Mapping project, which I posted here, the Theban Necropolis Online GIS serves a more research based agenda. The database is searchable on all fields and there are a number of tools to help navigate the multitude of mapped and attributed tombs.
Also, the recent imagery upgrade for Google Earth now
provides high resolution aerials for the Thebes area (Google Earth 
), not that the panchromatic base layer used by the online GIS is shabby.
If your interested in learning a bit more about the less publicized areas of this highly visited Egyptian site, take a tour with the Theban Necropolis online GIS. Also, check out the Theban Necropolis DB for additional data.
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